Hi Jim, all, 2011/6/4 Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com>: > > On Jun 4, 2011, at 10:28 AM, Greg Stein wrote: > >> >> Personally, I think Oracle's choice had more to do with IBM's >> recommendation, than taxes. >> > > I've been told that Oracle and TDF *were* in discussions but > that the demands by TDF were sufficiently unpalatable to Oracle > as to prevent any sort of agreement... IBM may have strongly > suggested the ASF as a backup, but we were the runner-up in > a sense. Taxes were not an issue... > I do not see where the demands were "unpalatable": http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2011/06/06/publishing-our-recommendation-to-oracle/
TDF just refused to pay for anything which is under contract of Oracle. Bye Volker -- Volker Merschmann Member of The Document Foundation http://www.documentfoundation.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
