Oracle wants LibreOffice members to leave OOo council (ars technica) [LWN.net]

Oracle wants LibreOffice members to leave OOo council (ars technica)

Posted Oct 19, 2010 23:00 UTC (Tue) by antifuchs (subscriber, #34569)
Parent article: Oracle wants LibreOffice members to leave OOo council (ars technica)

That Oracle wants the OOo community council members not to be the same people who make decisions about LO makes perfect sense to me. Sounds like a genuine conflict of interest scenario.

Also, Saurez-Potts gets paid by Oracle to represent Oracle's interests in the OOo community, and he does just that? Not a huge surprise. (-:

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Oracle wants LibreOffice members to leave OOo council (ars technica)

Posted Oct 20, 2010 3:30 UTC (Wed) by jamesh (guest, #1159) [Link] (1 responses)

The LibreOffice fork was created due to a disagreement about the direction of the OOo project.

If such a disagreement is now a conflict of interest, was it also a conflict of interest before hand when they hadn't formed a separate project and were just releasing patches to OOo releases?

Oracle wants LibreOffice members to leave OOo council (ars technica)

Posted Oct 20, 2010 11:52 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

You'd think that discussing this sort of thing and coming up with amicable resolutions would be exactly the sort of thing a 'community council' would be *for*. But apparently not, if you have to leave it whenever you have serious enough disagreements to create your own fork. (And why is this fork Bad where go-oo was not? Is it just that go-oo was distributed as patches and incredibly inconvenient to maintain, where libreoffice is a nice git tree?)

Oracle wants LibreOffice members to leave OOo council (ars technica)

Posted Oct 20, 2010 4:49 UTC (Wed) by rickmoen (subscriber, #6943) [Link]

I doubt very, very much your implicit assumption that Oracle Corporation is permitting the OOo community council to make (meaningful, significant) decisions about OpenOffice.org (which is the only way it could even conceivably create a conflict of interest, as far as I can tell).

Rick Moen
rick@linuxmafia.com