Re: [tdf-discuss] Basic question about Oracle asking OOo community members to leave

On Monday 18 Oct 2010 16:58:40 M. Fioretti wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 04:48:23 AM +0200, Ramon Sole
>
> (ramon.sole@opscons.com) wrote:
> > Both communities will be able to collaborate in tons of things, but
> > the project leaders can't share responsabilities in both projects.
> > If so, why to have two Communities?  You can't fork a open source
> > project and keep your responsabilities in the original one!  It's
> > astonishing just trying to do it.
>
> Thanks Ramon. You've summed up better than I could the two reasons that
> (without me being even completely aware of them) made me ask the
> question that started this thread.
>
> I was surprised seeing people who started TDF continuing to keep their
> OOo hats (1). And much more surprised to see all these "surprised"
> reactions to Oracle's "resignment" actions. I mean, I would have said
> that if there's anything surprising in that is ONLY the fact that it
> took so long. I'd assume that it took Oracle managers no more than 20
> seconds after the initial TDF announcement to decide they wanted to do
> it, and Oracle lawyers much less than 20 days to decide if they could
> get away with it.
>
> I really don't know if there are other people today that still have
> any official role in both communities, OOo and TDF (or that have
> official roles only in OOo but have formally, publicly approved
> TDF). But if there are such people, I'm very interested to hear if
> they plan to resign before being "resigned", and above all their
> general opinion about what Ramon said and on how to handle the
> OOo/Oracle <-> LibO/TDF relation in the future.
>
>        thanks,
>        M. Fioretti
>        http://stop.zona-m.net
>
> (1) the intrinsical *validity* of the reasons that caused the creation
> of TDF are a totally separate issue, at least for me!

I fully support the ideals of a foundation and have since day one 20001013 

I hope that OOo and Oracle become part of the Foundation

However, for the foreseeable future and barring any dramatic actions that make 
it untenable, I will remain firmly part of the OOo team and continue to 
promote OOo first and foremost, if people ask, and they have,  I tell them all 
I know, but I do it as a OOo's representative in NZ and I make that clear.

To me a fork is a good thing, it allows choice, it ensures the longevity of 
the OOo code and any publicity is good publicity :)

Cheers
GL

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