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

> Hi Marco,
>
> M. Fioretti wrote (20-10-10 05:46)
> > [...]
> > The real question was "why didn't the TDF founders who have/had
> > official roles in OOo publicly resign from those roles on Sept 28th,
> > one second BEFORE announcing the birth of TDF? Would'nt it have been
> > much more proper, considering that creating TDF is basically saying in
> > public "the way Oracle is handling OOo sucks so much that we can't
> > take it anymore"? Why all this surprise now?"
>
> Since I know that the other cc members (some, partly) are interested in
> finding ways to work together I just did not expect that they were not
> looking from another perspective at that moment, then to make me (and
> the others) leave immediately.
> Looking back, I could have chosen different, obviously.

There has been a need for a foundation since the beginning. That doesn't
mean that Sun or Oracle completely mismanaged the community. It is as much
an issue of principle as practice. If OOo/LO are going to attract the
widest possible support, it is not easy if one player is clearly dominant
over all others. My view is that in the longer term a foundation is in the
best interests of Oracle (or Sun previously) but the large corporate
mentality will not see things that way. It's counter-intuitive to
everything they have ever done - but of course the whole open source issue
is counter-intuitive to traditional corporate values.

So I think it is not surprising that the view of a unilateral move to set
up tdf will have different emotions invoked from the different sides.
There is always risk in change and only time will tell whether the risk
was justified. But of course there is also risk in maintaining the status
quo ;-).



> Regards,
> Cor
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