Hello all; I spent some time reading these email archives to get a better understanding of the issues. To me it seem obvious this effort should join with the LibreOffice community.
Why "open source" advocates at IBM would stand up for the "right" of software to be made proprietary in the future makes no sense to me. I would think the job of an IBM evangelist would be to advocate copyleft, not to evangelize lax licenses using IBM's reputation. It is the little guys that get screwed by lax licenses. Convincing IBM to make GPL their official free license would be useful evangelism. Who is working on that? LibreOffice is a success, and way ahead of you guys. There is a lot of work to be done. You can find a productive role for anyone in LibreOffice. I predict and hope that this project gets no support from the community as you are wasting our time starting with these emails. Everyone who has a choice should join LibreOffice. It has a better license, and a community of good people, distros and companies. First people need to understand what they are missing. One little reminder: LibreOffice will be the official build for Linux, and will have the best support, so I don't even understand who you expect to get help from when few technical people will be using it. LibreOffice could use the work of the OO core developers / testers today. What is the status of them? They are the most important asset in this situation, not the evangelists / suits who seem on their way to screwing it up. I'm sure they would rather join LibreOffice. Python is a better language than Java. Sun screwed Java in addition to OpenOffice. The move from Java is another way LibreOffice is ahead. Java should be abandoned by the community, but that is mostly a side issue here. Here is a section of my book that gives a case study on forks: http://keithcu.com/wordpress/?page_id=558 Maybe I'll make another case study about you guys in the future, depending on how far you get ;-) I think people working in MS Office would laugh at these mails. Perhaps they would root for IBM / Apache to succeed and cause more chaos and confusion. I sometimes think Linux on the desktop is hopeless because there are too many people so clever they manage to ignore basic facts. -Keith http://keithcu.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
