Re: [tdf-discuss] We're on slashdot

2010-10-22 Thread Kálmán „KAMI” Szalai
Hi! It is not surprising to me. Until the LibreOffice you was 100% committed to OpenOffice.org. Now, what is your occupation? Are you a OpenOffice.org contributor, or LibreOffice or both of them?. If somebody ask you what offer to him as a office suite what will you tell to him? It is somehow a

Re: [tdf-discuss] We're on slashdot

2010-10-18 Thread jonathon
On 10/17/2010 12:00 PM, Gianluca Turconi wrote: So, community budget is now directly managed from Oracle?! Sun, and then Oracle has always tried to manage that was related to OOo. jonathon -- No human will see non-list, non-bulk, non-junk email sent to this address. It all gets forwarded to

[tdf-discuss] We're on slashdot

2010-10-17 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
We're on slashdot. I mention this for info purposes only, not suggesting anyone should waste their time responding to the inevitable stupid comments. --Jean http://goo.gl/qmIk -- E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available

Re: [tdf-discuss] We're on slashdot

2010-10-17 Thread Gianluca Turconi
In data 17 ottobre 2010 alle ore 12:07:04, Jean Hollis Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com ha scritto: We're on slashdot. I mention this for info purposes only, not suggesting anyone should waste their time responding to the inevitable stupid comments. --Jean http://goo.gl/qmIk Indeed, the content of

Re: [tdf-discuss] We're on slashdot

2010-10-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Ian wrote: On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 08:08 -0400, Marc Paré wrote: how could a corporation come in and take over a community and take control of their budget? Because there was no legal entity - that is why a Foundation was needed from the outset. Well, OpenOffice.org donations go to Team

Re: [tdf-discuss] We're on slashdot

2010-10-17 Thread Italo Vignoli
Marc Paré wrote: Just out of curiosity, re: budget money: Was the budget funds collected and donated to the community? Exactly: donations. If so, how could a corporation come in and take over a community and take control of their budget? I have been resigned on Tuesday, and I have asked

Re: [tdf-discuss] We're on slashdot

2010-10-17 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-17 08:47, Andrea Pescetti a écrit : Ian wrote: On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 08:08 -0400, Marc Paré wrote: how could a corporation come in and take over a community and take control of their budget? Because there was no legal entity - that is why a Foundation was needed from the outset.

Re: [tdf-discuss] We're on slashdot

2010-10-17 Thread David Filskov
No need for further explanations. Good one :) -- E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be

Re: [tdf-discuss] We're on slashdot

2010-10-17 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Gianluca, * Gianluca Turconi schrieb: In data 17 ottobre 2010 alle ore 14:51:39, Italo Vignoli [...] I would expect that *Team OpenOffice.org e.V.*, the recipient of donations, would have decided about who can or cannot manage its money before the approvers in charge are removed. Perhaps

Re: [tdf-discuss] We're on slashdot

2010-10-17 Thread AG
On 17/10/10 13:37, Ian wrote: On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 08:08 -0400, Marc Paré wrote: Just out of curiosity, re: budget money: Was the budget funds collected and donated to the community? If so, how could a corporation come in and take over a community and take control of their budget?

Re: [tdf-discuss] We're on slashdot

2010-10-17 Thread Gianluca Turconi
In data 17 ottobre 2010 alle ore 18:05:37, Bernhard Dippold bernh...@familie-dippold.at ha scritto: Really, I'm not able to understand how these actions ca be legally supported. It's all about the definition of the OpenOffice.org community. If this community has *not* established a

Re: [tdf-discuss] We're on slashdot

2010-10-17 Thread Fridrich Strba
On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 22:35 +1000, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: I've been intending to check how many CC members are Oracle employees and how many are not. Do they really have the votes to force these changes? They have all the votes, basically many developers in Hamburg are either leads or

Re: [tdf-discuss] We're on slashdot

2010-10-17 Thread Per Eriksson
Dear members of the community, If we think that we indeed have a better community model and software development model, our best way of showing that is by demonstrating how it is supposed to work. The ongoing discussions about old, bad working models will only take our energy when getting

Re: [tdf-discuss] We're on slashdot

2010-10-17 Thread Ian
On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 21:58 +0200, Per Eriksson wrote: Dear members of the community, If we think that we indeed have a better community model and software development model, our best way of showing that is by demonstrating how it is supposed to work. The ongoing discussions about old, bad

Re: [tdf-discuss] We're on slashdot

2010-10-17 Thread Cor Nouws
Andrea Pescetti wrote (17-10-10 14:47) Well, OpenOffice.org donations go to Team OpenOffice.org e.V. (not to be confused with OpenOffice.org Deutschland e.V.) http://contributing.openoffice.org/donate.html and the treasurer of Team OpenOffice.org e.V. happens to be from Oracle: