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

On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 14:19, Florian Effenberger
<floeff@documentfoundation.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Greg Stein wrote on 2011-06-05 20.03:
>
> > > That point has been repeaded over and over again, but basically you are
> > > saying everyone "Do not set up your own foundation at all, we alreadyh
> > > have
> > > enough."
> >
> > I don't know that Robert B-D said that, or anybody else. *I* certainly
> > said it, and strongly believe it. But that's just me :-)
>
> so, why don't the ASF, the Mozilla Foundation, the Eclipse Foundation and
> the GNOME Foundation unite? :-)

Different goals.

I actually helped in setting up the Eclipse Foundation :-P (and the
Python Software Foundation, for that matter)

MoFo exists to own MoCo. Eclipse is a consortium, rather than a
charity. So of the group, it would be GNOME and ASF that are most
similar. Danese could probably speak to why GNOME Foundation was set
up. I dunno, but I do think its duplication is sad...

> Sorry for the provocative question, I just wanted to state "But we already
> have a foundation" is no good argument for me. However, I think the point

I wasn't trying to make that argument. Just a generic statement about
open source groups thinking it is all cool to have their own
foundation. It isn't. Far from it. Django... Drupal... this that and
the other.

> ...
> This might not affect other topics, but honestly, I think the perception of
> what already is in existence is not clear enough for many parties on this
> list. :-) Hope I could shed some light on it...

You very much did. Thank you!

Cheers,
-g

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