> On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 6:35 AM, Ian Lynch <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > It just seems that there are too many individual interests > > outweighing such a goal at present. > > > Apache OOo fork is born out of 'corporate' interest not 'individual' > interests. Hence the fatal license road block.
Individual as in discrete not as in people. Read Pedro's perspective, politically different from yours but none the less legitimate. To me, the over-riding consideration is to get the widest take up of the ofd standard. Any of the rest, even if important, is less important. I don't like Apple, but I have to admit that they got more desktop machines running non-windows OSs than all the Linux distros combined. That should tell us something. -- Ian Ofqual Accredited IT Qualifications (The Schools ITQ) www.theINGOTs.org +44 (0)1827 305940 The Learning Machine Limited, Reg Office, 36 Ashby Road, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B79 8AQ. Reg No: 05560797, Registered in England and Wales.
