Re: Result: Logo for the 10th anniversary - request for approval

  Op 5-10-2010 0:40, Drew Jensen schreef:
>  On 10/04/2010 05:39 PM, Simon Brouwer wrote:
>>
>> Apparently it's easy to forget that it has also continuously been 
>> putting in much of the effort baking it, and that it had provided the 
>> cake in the first place.
>
> Please believe me when I say that it is not nearly as easy as it may 
> seem from outward appearances.
>
> I found out about this action the day before it was made public and I 
> waited, as I was asked to, to talk openly with others until after the 
> formal announcement. That day, of contemplation, may make it appear 
> that I was acting almost spontaneously.
>
>>
>> IMO the arrangement was definitely not ideal but also not 
>> particularly unfair.
>
> IMO, it is a case of perspective, and I am cognizant of the fact that 
> honorable people can have honest differences of opinion, with enough 
> truth on all sides for each to feel justified in their beliefs.
>
>>
>>> That over the course of this period the members of the community 
>>> governing structure not employed by the major corporate sponsor felt 
>>> it necessary to create a non-profit foundation.
>>>
>>> Certainly what one would call 'the community' included the major 
>>> corporate sponsor.
>>>
>>> What is happening now, IMO, is that Oracle is attempting to exercise 
>>> a right of veto over the aspirations of the other members of the 
>>> community.
>>
>> I am not sure in how far it is correct to equate The Document 
>> Foundation with "the other members of the community".
>
>
> Since Tuesday however I have been in communication with literally 
> dozens of individuals, either by direct email, by phone call, IM, and 
> open forums. To say that there is unanimous agreement with these 
> actions would not be true.
>
> There is as far as I can tell however a strong consensus amongst those 
> I've spoken with that this is a correct course of action, even if 
> there is great trepidation on the part of some of these individuals.
>
> A few individuals are strongly opposed, a couple of them have begun to 
> change their minds over the last few days and are now more receptive 
> to this change, others have not changed their opinion.
>
> I would assume that this is actually the case with folks in the 
> offices in Hamburg also and I can only guess that many of you find 
> yourselves caught between the proverbial rock and a hard place, others 
> no doubt are less conflicted. *smile*

Just to make it clear: I am an independent volunteer community member 
without any affiliation with Oracle that might color my perspective.
However, until now I am not convinced that the position of Sun/Oracle in 
the project has been, or was going to be, a larger obstacle to the 
continued success of OpenOffice.org (under any name) than this big 
change may turn out to be. I would be very sorry to see the efforts 
(including mine) of ten years OOo going down the drain.

-- 
Best regards,
Simon Brouwer.

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