Re: [board-discuss] Commercial entity vs community development and distribution

2022-01-13 Thread Ilmari Lauhakangas
On 13.1.2022 21.56, Michael Meeks wrote: On 13/01/2022 12:35, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Endian-ness for embedded Firebird seems to be the elephant in the room here. ODB files made on MacOS can not easily be shared with other OSes/arch. Oh - wow, I didn't know that. Wow - that is awful. T

Re: [board-discuss] Commercial entity vs community development and distribution

2022-01-13 Thread Michael Meeks
On 13/01/2022 12:35, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Thanks for jumping in on this thread, and I appreciate you having taken the time to address my points. Nice to talk the issues through constructively =) Oh, yes, I still remember the pain involved in transitioning from PPC to Intel.

Re: [board-discuss] Counterproposal to the "actization" of LibreOffice Online

2022-01-13 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Marco, On 09/01/2022 16:05, Marco Marinello wrote: > I also would like to emphasize the fact that, in the current situation, > building a competing product starting from the frozen repo with no > companies working on it and the one on GitHub 1 year ahead, would just > be impossible. T

Re: [board-discuss] Commercial entity vs community development and distribution

2022-01-13 Thread Paolo Vecchi
Hi Alex, On 13/01/2022 13:35, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Lest there be some misunderstanding, I also wasn't touting that Base be atticised, far from it, that would be counter-productive for me in particular, my concerns were levelled more at the perceived (by me) risk that apathy, or lack of fo

Re: [board-discuss] Commercial entity vs community development and distribution

2022-01-13 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi Michael, Thanks for jumping in on this thread, and I appreciate you having taken the time to address my points. Comments inline : Le 12/01/2022 à 21:45, Michael Meeks a écrit : Unfortunately - this tends to dis-aggregate the funding again - so we end up either with too little money