On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 10:49 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: > On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Fernando Cassia <fcas...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Simon Phipps <si...@webmink.com> wrote: > >> If you forward me links I'll make sure the TDF Membership Committee takes > >> a look. > > > > What are LO advocates doing on this list?. Just curious.... > > > > http://webmink.com/2012/02/19/libreoffice-video/ > > > > Where it says "OpenOffice's succesor, LibreOffice...." > > > > Let me get this straight, the forkers destroyed StarOffice, spit > > Oracle in the face then invited them for dinner (to join TDF), then > > they get upset that Oracle does not comply with their demands, they > > nevertheless go ahead with their fork, and when OpenOffice is donated > > to Apache and continues having the brand recognition, the mind share > > and the majority of downloads on the Windows platform, are we supposed > > to play nice and friendly with people who can't promote their fork > > without comparing themselves to Apache OO and some even spread lies > > all the time? > > > > Well, yes. We're supposed to be nice, even when others are spreading > FUD and trying to derail the project. > > Of course, none of our saints, and even fewer of us are martyrs, so > individually there is only so much abuse anyone of us is going to put > up with. But as a project we must remain open and welcoming to all, > especially to LibreOffice volunteers. > > That doesn't mean we need to agree with the FUD, or let misstatements > go unaddressed. It just means we need to handle it in a calm, > professional, non-argumentative way. For example, we can collect the > top-10 erroneous statements about AOO on the wiki and prepare a blog > post to respond to them. > > And this is not just about being "nice". This is also the most > pragmatic thing to do. There are a small number of active, vocal and > negative people at LibreOffice who like to beat up on OpenOffice and > the work we do here.
That cuts both ways. <snip>
