[odf-discuss] Gnome, Ecma, and what governments (and FOSS?) should have done

[Daniel Carrera]

Alberto wrote:

> I've read from several sources repeatelly last times, I was in the OOoCon, I 
> have "internal" information, I share a lot of conversations with the OOo 
> community, and from all that, the I only preceived is a sudden criticisms 
> from Novell environment on Sun and the OOo way of doing... when previously 
> everybody, including Novell was accepting that way of working.

Meeks and many others (including myself) have been very critical of the OOo way of working for many years. Criticism is not new, and in particular, Meeks is well known for being critical of how OOo work. It's been like that for years, it's not something new. I criticize the way OOo works too, it's extremely difficult to have your work accepted. I was once the Community Representative in the OOo Community Council, trust me, I've tried to effect change in OOo, and eventually I decided it was a huge waste of my time.


> If you check, this is the same 
> that is making FSF with the GNU project for example,

While I don't wish to discuss the merit of copyright assignment to Sun, I note a problem with your analogy. The FSF does not make a proprietary version of GNU to sell.


> Besides, that Novell is not contributing to OOo last times is a fact.

I don't believe that's true. To my knowledge they continue to contribute and in no less quantity than they did before. A community member wrote a piece of code and made it GPL. Novell took it and Sun didn't. That's the extent of the "fork".


Daniel.