Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-06 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/6/2011 12:47 AM, Phil Steitz wrote: On 6/5/11 10:16 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: ASF members wish to devote considerable time and energy to this project, so exactly who the hell are you to decide what they should and shouldn't devote that time and energy to? I am just a volunteer

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-06 Thread Sanjiva Weerawarana
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Phil Steitz phil.ste...@gmail.com wrote: On 6/5/11 10:16 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: Wow. Did it occur to you that the original project, Apache httpd, was commercially exploited by vendors *even prior to the creation of the Apache Software Foundation*?

Re: Questions for the cheap seats. - Priming the Pump

2011-06-06 Thread Greg Stein
Well, a quick answer is that we can't make a release that requires code under a license less permissive than ALv2. Releasing a tarball of the entry code would most likely not fulfill that requirement. That's why it gets a bit tricky. The meta-answer is that we don't want to surprise downstream

Re: Legal concern: Are we getting to close ot a division of markets conversation?

2011-06-06 Thread Greg Stein
Whatever. This is just not a concern. Please end this thread. There is no problem, so this is just noise. -g On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 00:44, Norbert Thiebaud nthieb...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: The problem here is that

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-06 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/6/2011 1:06 AM, Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Phil Steitz phil.ste...@gmail.com wrote: On 6/5/11 10:16 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: Wow. Did it occur to you that the original project, Apache httpd, was commercially exploited by vendors *even prior to the

Re: Legal concern: Are we getting to close ot a division of markets conversation?

2011-06-06 Thread Andreas Kuckartz
Am 06.06.2011 03:56, schrieb robert_w...@us.ibm.com: There are limits to what competitors can do to divide markets among themselves. IANL, of course, but this smells very bad, and I suggest we don't broach the topic again, unless cleared by ASF Legal Affairs. I myself will withdraw from this

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-06 Thread Phil Steitz
On 6/5/11 11:02 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: On 6/6/2011 12:47 AM, Phil Steitz wrote: On 6/5/11 10:16 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: ASF members wish to devote considerable time and energy to this project, so exactly who the hell are you to decide what they should and shouldn't devote that

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-06 Thread eric b
Hi, Le 6 juin 11 à 02:28, William A. Rowe Jr. a écrit : Because Oracle and TDF, in confidential negotiations, could not come to an agreement. Also that's one more reason why OpenOffice.org should be hosted by the Apache Foundation. For the memory, LibreOffice and TDF have been created

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-06 Thread Phil Steitz
On 6/5/11 11:26 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: On 6/6/2011 1:06 AM, Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Phil Steitz phil.ste...@gmail.com wrote: On 6/5/11 10:16 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: Wow. Did it occur to you that the original project, Apache httpd, was

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-06 Thread Ralph Goers
On Jun 5, 2011, at 11:34 PM, Phil Steitz wrote: On 6/5/11 11:02 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: On 6/6/2011 12:47 AM, Phil Steitz wrote: On 6/5/11 10:16 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: ASF members wish to devote considerable time and energy to this project, so exactly who the hell are you to

Re: /ignore troll [was: OpenOffice LibreOffice]

2011-06-06 Thread Ross Gardler
Sent from my mobile device (so please excuse typos) On 6 Jun 2011, at 02:49, Keith Curtis keit...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 6:34 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: In my book, I talk for pages about the importance of the ODF standard. Did you know that

Re: Legal concern: Are we getting to close ot a division of markets conversation?

2011-06-06 Thread Andreas Kuckartz
Am 06.06.2011 08:22, schrieb Greg Stein: This is just not a concern. Please end this thread. There is no problem, so this is just noise. I disagree. The issue is not if there is a legal problem but if people working for IBM state that it might be one. That might have a potentially severe

Re: Legal concern: Are we getting to close ot a division of markets conversation?

2011-06-06 Thread Greg Stein
Hey. Feel free to spin your theories. It just isn't possible to divide markets around ALv2 code. On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 03:10, Andreas Kuckartz a.kucka...@ping.de wrote: Am 06.06.2011 08:22, schrieb Greg Stein: This is just not a concern. Please end this thread. There is no problem, so this

Re: OpenOffice LibreOffice

2011-06-06 Thread Paul Fremantle
I don't know why people bother to put the Apache text at the top of every file, when someone else can just as quickly remove / relicense it. PS Have you read the Apache License? -- Paul Fremantle Co-Founder and CTO, WSO2 Apache Synapse PMC Chair OASIS WS-RX TC Co-chair blog:

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-06 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Italo Vignoli italo.vign...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/02/2011 09:44 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: Hi Italo Let's look at it this way: Pretend that when things starting going south in OOo, but before TDF was formed, Oracle had done what it just did: donate the code and

Travel Assistance applications now open for ApacheCon NA 2011

2011-06-06 Thread Gavin McDonald
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Re: Legal concern: Are we getting to close ot a division of markets conversation?

2011-06-06 Thread Andreas Kuckartz
Am 06.06.2011 09:25, schrieb Greg Stein: Hey. Feel free to spin your theories. Thanks. It just isn't possible to divide markets around ALv2 code. Great if that is so. But if true or not: it is not even an answer to the question raised by Rob. I think that you completely misunderstand how

Re: Legal concern: Are we getting to close ot a division of markets conversation?

2011-06-06 Thread Ian Lynch
On 6 June 2011 08:25, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: Hey. Feel free to spin your theories. It just isn't possible to divide markets around ALv2 code. We had a lot of these competition discussions/arguments with BECTA in the UK. They never grasped that FOSS is not a product in the sense

Re: Legal concern: Are we getting to close ot a division of markets conversation?

2011-06-06 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On 6 Jun 2011, at 09:13, Andreas Kuckartz wrote: Am 06.06.2011 09:25, schrieb Greg Stein: One of the main topics of the whole discussion regarding the OpenOffice.org incubation proposal was and is collaboration with TDF / LO. And now the first initial committer from IBM in the proposal states

Re: Legal concern: Are we getting to close ot a division of markets conversation?

2011-06-06 Thread dsh
I guess if I get it correct the point in here is that most of us are legal layman and thus it's not necessarily efficient if we try to sort out legal concerns on our own. Instead this is supposed to be IP and patent attorney business from my PoV. If assistance in this regards is required it might

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-06 Thread Simon Brouwer
Christian Lippka schreef: Am 06.06.2011 00:28, schrieb Simon Brouwer: Op 5-6-2011 19:19, Christian Lippka schreef: Hi Ralph, Am 05.06.2011 18:46, schrieb Ralph Goers: On Jun 5, 2011, at 8:59 AM, Joe Schaefer wrote: I posted a similar statement yesterday. Personally, I think the traffic

Re: Legal concern: Are we getting to close ot a division of markets conversation?

2011-06-06 Thread Sam Ruby
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 4:45 AM, dsh daniel.hais...@googlemail.com wrote: If IBM has legal concerns in this regards they may involve their own IP and patent attorney stuff IBM-internally. I really didn't want to participate in this thread, and like Greg wish it would end, but I will state a

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-06 Thread Christian Grobmeier
Or rather, the incubator needs to evaluate current proposals on its current methodology, and (in a quiet time between proposals) generate more specific criteria for incubation, independent of any particular proposal.  I just find it rude to change the rules of the game during the match. That

Code covered by the Oracle grant

2011-06-06 Thread Sam Ruby
Forwarding as requested. - Sam Ruby -- Forwarded message -- From: Christian Lohmaier lohmaier+ooofut...@googlemail.com Date: Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 5:45 AM Subject: [tdf-discuss] Code covered by the Oracle grant (was: Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice) To:

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-06 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote on 2011-06-06 02.28: Because Oracle and TDF, in confidential negotiations, could not come to an agreement. And I think that's all that need be said on the matter. well, I guess it has been mentioned on this list before, but let me state it this way: What TDF

Re: OpenOffice LibreOffice

2011-06-06 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 3:06 AM, Ralph Goers ralph.go...@dslextreme.com wrote: The purpose of this list is not to explain how to do either of these. Exactly. Can we please kill off this thread already? It doesn't seem to add any value to the OOo discussion. BR, Jukka Zitting

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-06 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/06/2011 08:02, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: AIUI the TDF uses the LGPL. Like the Apache License (AL), the LGPL also allows proprietary software to be built on top. So, why would you break your rule for a TDF project but not an ASF one? It

Re: Legal concern: Are we getting to close ot a division of markets conversation?

2011-06-06 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On 6 Jun 2011, at 10:51, Sam Ruby wrote: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 4:45 AM, dsh daniel.hais...@googlemail.com wrote: If IBM has legal concerns in this regards they may involve their own IP and patent attorney stuff IBM-internally. I really didn't want to participate in this thread, and like

Re: Legal concern: Are we getting to close ot a division of markets conversation?

2011-06-06 Thread Ian Lynch
On 6 June 2011 11:34, Dirk-Willem van Gulik di...@webweaving.org wrote: IMHO - if there is any such risk - we 1) should both help the regulators understand the situation better and 2) do this in such a transparent way that members of our communities are better equipped to have their part of

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting the Community?

2011-06-06 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/06/2011 19:22, Sam Ruby wrote: Note: I did not read it that way (I think it is quite plausible and I read it as a bona fide attempt by IBM to shove the project down the throat of The Apache Foundation. I hope we don't need to deliberate for

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-06 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote on 2011-06-06 02.37: And I remind you of this response I gave you before: http://markmail.org/message/wwoxum4tuvdg5q3p I guess we're running in circles. However, I have made my points and hopefully responded to some rumors spreading (like: TDF is no choice

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-06 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Sam, Sam Ruby wrote on 2011-06-06 02.02: I can tell you that those decisions are made above Rob's and my pay grades. Way above. maybe - looking behind corporate walls, so to say, is sometimes a bit complicated. I don't personally blame anyone for this, but reading some rumors or

Put myself on the initial committers list

2011-06-06 Thread Christoph Jopp
Dear All, I put myself on the initial committers list because I want to help the Apache OpenOffice Project in some way I can. As nearly nobody should know my name, I'll introduce myself briefly: Since 2005 I tried to support OOo by helping on forums and mailing lists, writing and co-writing a

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-06 Thread Ian Lynch
On 6 June 2011 12:43, Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.orgwrote: given that the granted source code seems to be lacking important parts, and there is no real idea on how to provide continuity for users (e.g. releasing OOo 3.4.0). All of this will do *much* harm, IMHO even more

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-06 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 3:37 AM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote on 06/05/2011 07:49:41 PM: From: Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com To: general@incubator.apache.org Date: 06/05/2011 07:50 PM Subject: Re: OpenOffice: were are we now? On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at

Re: Initial source files (was: OpenOffice: were are we now?)

2011-06-06 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 5, 2011, at 8:17 PM, Simon Phipps wrote: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 1:06 AM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: I would recommend altering the proposal. We have the set of files specified in the software grant. During incubation, we will seek a grant to the following groups of code: bullet

Re: OpenOffice LibreOffice

2011-06-06 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 5, 2011, at 4:56 PM, Keith Curtis wrote: The first step to abandoning the Apache license is for others to recognize like you have that it is not a free/libre license. I don't know why people bother to put the Apache text at the top of every file, when someone else can just as

Re: OpenOffice LibreOffice

2011-06-06 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 5, 2011, at 5:32 PM, Keith Curtis wrote: I wish the Apache org was more useful to me than just providing my HTTP server. It is official: Keith is a troll. Do not feed. - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: Put myself on the initial committers list

2011-06-06 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 6, 2011, at 7:57 AM, Christoph Jopp wrote: Dear All, I put myself on the initial committers list because I want to help the Apache OpenOffice Project in some way I can. Welcome! - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: Initial source files (was: OpenOffice: were are we now?)

2011-06-06 Thread Simon Phipps
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: On Jun 5, 2011, at 8:17 PM, Simon Phipps wrote: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 1:06 AM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: I would recommend altering the proposal. We have the set of files specified in the software grant. During

Re: Initial source files (was: OpenOffice: were are we now?)

2011-06-06 Thread Joe Schaefer
Like most aspects of Apache, it's easier to ask for forgiveness than to seek permission, epecially when we don't all agree on the necessity of it ;-). - Original Message From: Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com To: general@incubator.apache.org Sent: Mon, June 6, 2011 9:02:00 AM

Re: Put myself on the initial committers list

2011-06-06 Thread Christoph Jopp
Am 06.06.2011 15:01, schrieb Jim Jagielski: On Jun 6, 2011, at 7:57 AM, Christoph Jopp wrote: Dear All, I put myself on the initial committers list because I want to help the Apache OpenOffice Project in some way I can. Welcome!

Re: Initial source files (was: OpenOffice: were are we now?)

2011-06-06 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 6, 2011, at 9:02 AM, Simon Phipps wrote: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: On Jun 5, 2011, at 8:17 PM, Simon Phipps wrote: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 1:06 AM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: I would recommend altering the proposal. We have the set

Re: Initial source files (was: OpenOffice: were are we now?)

2011-06-06 Thread Simon Phipps
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote: Like most aspects of Apache, it's easier to ask for forgiveness than to seek permission, epecially when we don't all agree on the necessity of it ;-). Given I had actually asked for and received permission from the

Re: Initial source files (was: OpenOffice: were are we now?)

2011-06-06 Thread Joe Schaefer
FWIW, IMO it's Sam's call as he is the sponsor. Jim is just trying to avoid a situation where people who aren't signed up for the project start placing conditions on it. To my knowledge you haven't done that, and as you remarked you got permission to make your edits from the sponsor. Don't

Re: Initial source files (was: OpenOffice: were are we now?)

2011-06-06 Thread Jim Jagielski
That's correct... I had hoped that my follow-up had made that clear. On Jun 6, 2011, at 9:16 AM, Joe Schaefer wrote: FWIW, IMO it's Sam's call as he is the sponsor. Jim is just trying to avoid a situation where people who aren't signed up for the project start placing conditions on it. To

Re: Added Education Project idea to the OpenOffice.org Apache incubator

2011-06-06 Thread eric b
Hi Ross, Apologies, I just retrieved the mail one minute ago, sorting the n 750 mails I received from this list. Le 2 juin 11 à 12:13, Ross Gardler a écrit : On 02/06/2011 10:30, eric b wrote: Hi, For the record, I added the Education Project idea on the wiki page

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HREUNITING the Community?

2011-06-06 Thread Kevin Lau
Florian, Yes, I see the licensing topic and that there are different views on that. However, I don't know if that requires to set-up all community efforts a second time. Simon posted one possible creative solution. Setting up a parallel project IMHO is wrong. -Can you help me to understand this

Re: Initial source files (was: OpenOffice: were are we now?)

2011-06-06 Thread Sam Ruby
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: That's correct... I had hoped that my follow-up had made that clear. Just catching up on email after grabbing a quick breakfast. I did give people permission to make uncontroversial changes, and asked them to discuss here

Re: Legal concern: Are we getting to close ot a division of markets conversation?

2011-06-06 Thread Greg Stein
Bah. It is solving a nonexistent problem. Sit back, and enjoy life instead. On Jun 6, 2011 6:59 AM, Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 June 2011 11:34, Dirk-Willem van Gulik di...@webweaving.org wrote: IMHO - if there is any such risk - we 1) should both help the regulators understand

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-06 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/6/2011 4:55 AM, Christian Grobmeier wrote: that being said - can OOo really be treated like each other podling? I start to feel it might not be the case. Can we change the rules while the game? Yes, we can. I would be very dissappointed if we would obey blindly to our own rules just

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-06 Thread Joe Schaefer
- Original Message From: toki toki.kant...@gmail.com To: general@incubator.apache.org Sent: Mon, June 6, 2011 6:25:30 AM Subject: Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/06/2011 08:02, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote:

Re: Code covered by the Oracle grant

2011-06-06 Thread Christian Lippka
Am 06.06.2011 12:02, schrieb Christian Lohmaier [...] - Sam Ruby raw numbers: wc -l repo.lst sorted_ooo.lst 69076 repo.lst 39616 sorted_ooo.lst So even calling this seems to include the full repo and that even twice is either with malicious intent, or with no clue. Christian Lippka

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-06 Thread Simon Phipps
On Jun 6, 2011 2:58 PM, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote: Because Apache will own the brand, we can make access to the brand contingent on things like non-abuse of our OOo forums, among other things. Carrots and sticks. Is Apache historically flexible in this area? I had the

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-06 Thread Joe Schaefer
I think we have to recognize needs of the existing ecosystem before we go blindly applying our newly-minted trademark policy. We've become rather keen on protecting our marks from encroachment from commercial endeavors, and that will certainly carry over to OOo. - Original Message

Re: Questions from the cheap seats.

2011-06-06 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Andy Brown a...@the-martin-byrd.net wrote: Andy Brown wrote: Hi all. Hi Andy This is my fist post here, been lurking from day one. And today you've become a contributor :-) As a user I am trying to understand somethings that are going on here. 1:

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-06 Thread Richard S. Hall
On 6/6/11 2:48, Phil Steitz wrote: On 6/5/11 11:26 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: On 6/6/2011 1:06 AM, Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Phil Steitzphil.ste...@gmail.com wrote: On 6/5/11 10:16 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: Wow. Did it occur to you that the

Re: Code covered by the Oracle grant

2011-06-06 Thread Sam Ruby
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Christian Lippka c...@lippka.com wrote: While the technical analyze here seems (should not use that word) correct my understanding is that missing bits could still be provided if requested. But this must be answered by people who are making the negotiations.

RE: Questions for the cheap seats. - Priming the Pump

2011-06-06 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
OK, I get that. I am pushing for the least that could possibly work in terms of having a base under ALv2 that can then be refined, refactored, whatever, but it captures the contribution in a form that is suitable to continue from, however much it still needs to be wacked on. It might not

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-06 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Richard S. Hall wrote on 2011-06-06 16.19: However, it seems like we have lost sight of the fact that TDF split the community from OOo. Sure, Oracle is the perceived villain and TDF the perceived good guy, but it doesn't change the fact that OOo created the community in the first place.

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-06 Thread Manfred A. Reiter
Hi Richard, * 2011/6/6 Richard S. Hall he...@ungoverned.org On 6/6/11 2:48, Phil Steitz wrote: On 6/5/11 11:26 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: On 6/6/2011 1:06 AM, Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Phil Steitzphil.ste...@gmail.com  wrote: [...] Disclaimer: I

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-06 Thread Ralph Goers
On Jun 6, 2011, at 7:41 AM, Manfred A. Reiter wrote: Hi Richard, * 2011/6/6 Richard S. Hall he...@ungoverned.org On 6/6/11 2:48, Phil Steitz wrote: On 6/5/11 11:26 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: On 6/6/2011 1:06 AM, Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Phil

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-06 Thread Richard S. Hall
On 6/6/11 10:41, Manfred A. Reiter wrote: Hi Richard, * 2011/6/6 Richard S. Hallhe...@ungoverned.org On 6/6/11 2:48, Phil Steitz wrote: On 6/5/11 11:26 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: On 6/6/2011 1:06 AM, Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Phil

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-06 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 3:52 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: To the extent that OOo presents the incubator with something the ASF has not faced, you are correct... these things we have no standards yet to measure whether a podling should be accepted.  To the extent that it is

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-06 Thread Richard S. Hall
On 6/6/11 10:33, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi, Richard S. Hall wrote on 2011-06-06 16.19: However, it seems like we have lost sight of the fact that TDF split the community from OOo. Sure, Oracle is the perceived villain and TDF the perceived good guy, but it doesn't change the fact that OOo

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-06 Thread Manfred A. Reiter
Hi Ralph, 2011/6/6 Ralph Goers ralph.go...@dslextreme.com: On Jun 6, 2011, at 7:41 AM, Manfred A. Reiter wrote: [...] Under these conditions, I'll change my entry in the wiki. done. Manfred, I wouldn't be so hasty.  There are lots of opinions around here and we all need a bit of a

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-06 Thread Joe Schaefer
- Original Message From: Jochen Wiedmann jochen.wiedm...@gmail.com To: general@incubator.apache.org Sent: Mon, June 6, 2011 11:04:31 AM Subject: Re: OpenOffice: were are we now? - Concentration on binaries: Apache projects are usually all about source code. For example, Apache

Re: Legal concern: Are we getting to close ot a division of markets conversation?

2011-06-06 Thread robert_weir
Dirk-Willem van Gulik di...@webweaving.org wrote on 06/06/2011 04:27:04 AM: On 6 Jun 2011, at 09:13, Andreas Kuckartz wrote: Am 06.06.2011 09:25, schrieb Greg Stein: One of the main topics of the whole discussion regarding the OpenOffice.org incubation proposal was and is collaboration

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-06 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Richard S. Hall he...@ungoverned.org wrote: On 6/6/11 10:41, Manfred A. Reiter wrote: Hi Richard, * 2011/6/6 Richard S. Hallhe...@ungoverned.org On 6/6/11 2:48, Phil Steitz wrote: On 6/5/11 11:26 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: On 6/6/2011 1:06 AM, Sanjiva

Hackfest in Berlin?

2011-06-06 Thread robert_weir
I'l hoping to be in Berlin for the ODF Plugfest there, July 14-15th. Would it be worth while seeing if we can arrange a hackfest of some sort in Berlin, either the day before, or over the weekend? LibreOffice guys invited as well, of course. Could also have some startup sessions, to review

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-06 Thread Richard S. Hall
On 6/6/11 11:26, Simos Xenitellis wrote: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Richard S. Hallhe...@ungoverned.org wrote: On 6/6/11 10:41, Manfred A. Reiter wrote: Hi Richard, * 2011/6/6 Richard S. Hallhe...@ungoverned.org On 6/6/11 2:48, Phil Steitz wrote: On 6/5/11 11:26 PM, William A. Rowe

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-06 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/06/2011 13:58, Joe Schaefer wrote: Because Apache will own the brand, we can make access to the brand contingent on things like non-abuse of our OOo forums, among other things. ROTFLMAO At best, you are incredibly naive. Those policies will

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-06 Thread Ian Lynch
On 6 June 2011 16:39, Richard S. Hall he...@ungoverned.org wrote: On 6/6/11 11:26, Simos Xenitellis wrote: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Richard S. Hallhe...@ungoverned.org wrote: On 6/6/11 10:41, Manfred A. Reiter wrote: Hi Richard, * 2011/6/6 Richard S. Hallhe...@ungoverned.org

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-06 Thread Manfred A. Reiter
Hi Simos, *, 2011/6/6 Simos Xenitellis simos.li...@googlemail.com: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Richard S. Hall he...@ungoverned.org wrote: On 6/6/11 10:41, Manfred A. Reiter wrote: Hi Richard, * 2011/6/6 Richard S. Hallhe...@ungoverned.org [...] Fact: Your employer provoked the

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-06 Thread Joe Schaefer
Nice job of decontextualization (typical troll tactic). Here is what I was responding to: - Original Message From: toki toki.kant...@gmail.com To: general@incubator.apache.org Sent: Mon, June 6, 2011 6:25:30 AM Subject: Re:

This list is for how not why?

2011-06-06 Thread Ross Gardler
I'm on holiday reading from a phone. This has been said a dozen times already, but still most emails are focussing on the wrong kinds of questions. The code has been offered to the ASF The ASF is arguably a good home. Arguing whether it is or not is pointless. That's the home on offer. TDF

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-06 Thread Greg Stein
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 11:46, Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote: ... And the natural extension is that if there is no home for the OOo code with Apache where will it end up? That scenario is not without risk either. As I've said elsewhere, I would lobby our Board for an unsupported tarball of

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-06 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 6, 2011, at 11:40 AM, toki wrote: ROTFLMAO At best, you are incredibly naive. Those policies will stop the companies for all of one picosecond, if that long. ladies and gentlemen, we have another troll... Please don't feed.

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-06 Thread Ian Lynch
On 6 June 2011 17:08, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 11:46, Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote: ... And the natural extension is that if there is no home for the OOo code with Apache where will it end up? That scenario is not without risk either. As I've said

Question to TDF and its community

2011-06-06 Thread Niclas Hedhman
Dear TDFers, I was on a long flight and came back to an immense number of mails here and elsewhere on this topic, so please bear with me if this has been brought up before, by someone else. I vaguely recall the fork of OOo into LibreOffice, and if memory serves me right it was due to escape

Re: [Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

2011-06-06 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Jim, Jim Jagielski wrote on 2011-06-06 18.06: The reality is that IBM employees wearing their IBM hats, have made it crystal clear on the general@incubator list that IBM is going to force The Apache Foundation to take the project. How? I am *not* saying you would be influenced or

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-06 Thread drew
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 12:08 -0400, Greg Stein wrote: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 11:46, Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote: ... And the natural extension is that if there is no home for the OOo code with Apache where will it end up? That scenario is not without risk either. As I've said

Re: [PROPOSAL] Sqoop Project

2011-06-06 Thread arv...@cloudera.com
Hi Olivier, Thank you for volunteering to be a mentor for the project. I have added you to the list of nominated mentors on the proposal. Thanks and Regards, Arvind Prabhakar On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 6:30 AM, Olivier Lamy ol...@apache.org wrote: Hello, If you need more mentor, I can help.

Re: [PROPOSAL] Sqoop Project

2011-06-06 Thread arv...@cloudera.com
Hello All, I had a typo in my previous mail where I stated Unless there is any active discussion regarding this proposal in the early part of next week, I would like to call this to vote on Tuesday, June 14th. The date mentioned here is off by a week and was not the intention. Instead I would be

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: [Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

2011-06-06 Thread Greg Stein
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:17, Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Hi Jim, Jim Jagielski wrote on 2011-06-06 18.06: The reality is that IBM employees wearing their IBM hats, have made it  crystal clear on the general@incubator list that IBM is going to force  The

Re: Question to TDF and its community

2011-06-06 Thread Ian Lynch
On 6 June 2011 17:12, Niclas Hedhman nic...@hedhman.org wrote: Was it already at that time known that Oracle was going with a liberal license, and the fork was then a choice based in the ideological differences in licensing? If it was not, how would the people who forked then have reacted if

Re: [PROPOSAL] Sqoop Project

2011-06-06 Thread Mohammad Nour El-Din
Well you made me a lot confused :D, but I thought you had your reasons. Looking forward the vote tomorrow. On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 6:32 PM, arv...@cloudera.com arv...@cloudera.com wrote: Hello All, I had a typo in my previous mail where I stated Unless there is any active discussion regarding

Re: [Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

2011-06-06 Thread Emmanuel Lecharny
On 6/6/11 6:17 PM, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi Jim, Jim Jagielski wrote on 2011-06-06 18.06: The reality is that IBM employees wearing their IBM hats, have made it crystal clear on the general@incubator list that IBM is going to force The Apache Foundation to take the project. How?

Re: [Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

2011-06-06 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Greg, Greg Stein wrote on 2011-06-06 18.36: I'll repeat what Jim said: how do you think IBM can force us to take the project? Bob can say whatever he'd like on his blog. it wasn't me who stated that, so don't ask me. :-) I stated with my previous mail that I do *not* think you are forced.

Re: [Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

2011-06-06 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Emmanuel Lecharny wrote on 2011-06-06 18.40: Should The ASF made responsible for every comments made on the Internet by people who are not even remotely connected to The ASF ? no, and I didn't say that. Again, I just wanted to point out why people believe things as we heard before. Don't

Re: Question to TDF and its community

2011-06-06 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Niclas, Niclas Hedhman wrote on 2011-06-06 18.12: I was on a long flight and came back to an immense number of mails here and elsewhere on this topic, so please bear with me if this has been brought up before, by someone else. hope you had a safte trip, and I can feel with you - I had

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HREUNITING the Community?

2011-06-06 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Kevin Lau wrote on 2011-06-06 15.35: -Can you help me to understand this Simon posted one possible creative solution? It seems the discussion is making progress. I like to think this is appropriate to be seen in Initial source files (was: OpenOffice: were are we now?) thread than here.

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: [Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

2011-06-06 Thread Davanum Srinivas
fwiw, Bob Sutor is not a committer or on the incubator PMC or a member of the ASF [1]. Here's the list of folks on the incubator PMC who will vote on the proposal [2] [1] http://people.apache.org/committer-index.html [2] http://people.apache.org/committers-by-project.html#incubator-pmc On Mon,

Re: [PROPOSAL] Flume for the Apache Incubator

2011-06-06 Thread Jonathan Hsieh
It looks like we've gotten many positive responses, and thus far have had no issues brought up. We have 3 mentors signed up now, but if anyone else is willing, we'd be interested in adding at most one or two more mentors. Dicussion seem to have tapered off, so unless I hear otherwise, I plan on

Re: [Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

2011-06-06 Thread Emmanuel Lecharny
On 6/6/11 6:47 PM, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi, Emmanuel Lecharny wrote on 2011-06-06 18.40: Should The ASF made responsible for every comments made on the Internet by people who are not even remotely connected to The ASF ? no, and I didn't say that. Again, I just wanted to point out why

Re: [Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

2011-06-06 Thread Ian Lynch
Look guys, this is going round in circles. I'm not an ASF or TDF member but I spent quite a lot of time and effort on OOo and ODF in the past so I care what happens. The fact is the software grant is made. My understanding is that if the code goes into the incubator it does not even guarantee it

Re: This list is for how not why?

2011-06-06 Thread Kazunari Hirano
Hi Ross, Thank you for sending this message from your phone. It's very clear. :) On the other hand, if you feel you can work with us to find the best combined poker hand, please continue with the many constructive discussions here. If we can figure out the how? (or discover it's not

Re: [Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

2011-06-06 Thread Sam Ruby
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org wrote: The software grant is a done deal. I happen to believe the proposal will be accepted, but it is not a done deal. Ah, okay - so the software grant exists independent from the incubation result? The

Re: [Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

2011-06-06 Thread Phillip Rhodes
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote: Look guys, this is going round in circles. I'm not an ASF or TDF member but I spent quite a lot of time and effort on OOo and ODF in the past so I care what happens. The fact is the software grant is made. My understanding is

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: [Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

2011-06-06 Thread Greg Stein
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:46, Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Greg Stein wrote on 2011-06-06 18.36: ... The software grant is a done deal. I happen to believe the proposal will be accepted, but it is not a done deal. Ah, okay - so the software grant exists independent

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