Re: [board-discuss] Enable TDF to contribute more code to LibreOffice with in-house developers to address our donors specific needs

Hi,

Am 09.02.22 um 10:44 schrieb Jan Holesovsky:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> Daniel A. Rodriguez píše v Út 08. 02. 2022 v 19:31 -0300:
>
> > I think Andreas hits the nail on the head when he mentions that in
> > other
> > projects no company dominates the project or the community.
> The contrary is true: Most of the successful open source projects have
> a major, dominating company behind them - have a look at Nextcloud
> (Nextcloud GmbH), ownCloud (ownCloud GmbH), MariaDB (MariaDB
> Corporation Ag), ... and I can continue on and on.

once I read this sentences the first time, I thought I was in a
different film in 2010. But maybe I didn't understand the situation in
OOo project at that time.

Maybe this is due to the fact that I hadn't been at the dinner of an
inner circle during the Budapest conference.

> In LibreOffice, there is no dominating company.  Many like to paint
> Collabora as one, but it is not the case due to how the founding
> members (and I was one of them) have designed the TDF (with the 1/3
Sorry, but the founder of TDF was the association 'Freies Office
Deutschland e.V. (FrODeV)' with money from the world wide supporting
community.
> rule in the bodies and other means to protect from the project
> domination) and due to how the German charity laws work.

After some years in the LibreOffice project and TDF I reconsider that
the one third rule should have been one seat at maximum for an
organization. This would have lead to a more divers formation of TDF's
bodies.

But that is something that could be fixed only with high effort in case
there is a will to go in that direction.

> Also, such thinking is very offensive to eg. Allotropia - who is doing
> a great job undermining any kind of potential domination by excellent
> engineering; have a look at their impressive WASM prototype.
>
> But if you want to see an open source project with no company behind
> them, have a look at Apache OpenOffice.
Sorry, but there are other OSS projects with a lot of business
contributors with different sizes and a balanced impact on the project.
In my view such a structure / ecosystem is much more healthy.

Regards,
Andreas

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