Schaller: An Open Letter to Apache Foundation and Apache OpenOffice team

Schaller: An Open Letter to Apache Foundation and Apache OpenOffice team

Posted Aug 19, 2015 8:03 UTC (Wed) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)
In reply to: Schaller: An Open Letter to Apache Foundation and Apache OpenOffice team by jimjag
Parent article: Schaller: An Open Letter to Apache Foundation and Apache OpenOffice team

Also, looking at your two mailing-list posts that supposedly highlight the desire to "cooperate". Both those messages are on a libreoffice list, in response to a suggestion that everyone in LO should, purely out of self-interest, individually join the AOO proposal as initial members. I'm not sure whether this person is/was an active LO member himself, but he is posting on the LO list and clearly not speaking for AOO in that mail (he talks of just having "headed over" to Apache to find out what was happening). The first mail you quote is from him. It says

Regardless of individual feelings, the best the TdF and its members could do at this point would be to put on a smiling face, magnanimously congratulate the ASF for joining the community, and at least make it look like they were working closely with IBM to bring the best possible open document technologies to the world. If most or almost all of the LO contributors joined the Apache OpenOffice project, if only to lend moral support and help heal the rift, that would only be good for LO and the TdF. The best time to do that is now.

If he is an AOO member (which it doesn't seem like), it hardly looks like a good example of "reaching out" to me. And no mention of whether the LO code, too, would be merged into AOO, and how that would come about.

The second post you link talks about possible triple-licensing, which is quickly shot down.

The message I get from that thread (what little I read of it) is that some were trying to scare LO into joining AOO, with the threat of irrelevance in the face of this Apache+Oracle+IBM behemoth. But it didn't work.

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