I know it's soap opera stuff - but here, a Simon slap-down....
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On 7/7/2011 9:10 AM, IngridvdM wrote:
Hi Simon,
Am 07.07.2011 17:26, schrieb Simon Phipps:
On 7 Jul 2011, at 16:03, IngridvdM wrote:
Hi Donald, Ross, all,
Am 07.07.2011 12:56, schrieb Donald Harbison:
[...]
The end of a corporate controlled project, and the beginning of two
new open
source projects
[...]
I would like to change this part of the description. I think it
should be made absolute clear to the public that the split of the
community has happened before and completely independent from the
donation of OpenOffice.org to the Apache Software Foundation. The
creation of LibreOffice/TDF has happend already last year in 2010.
While I understand why you believe this, I think it's unhelpful
"framing" that's likely to perpetuate division. I prefer Don's
approach, which takes a higher-level view of what has happened.
Not being precise on the historic facts here and creating or only
allowing the wrong impression that the Apache OpenOffice has caused
the split of the community will do harm to this project. It will also
hinder the healing process between the communities. So if you are
interested in the welfare of both communities and the healing between
them, help to handle this with more care.
Thanks,
Ingrid
