Re: [native-lang] Change in Lead

Hi Louis,


Am 15.10.2010 18:05, schrieb Louis Suárez-Potts:
>
> I guess then we disagree. For I see OpenOffice.org as quite distinct
> and different from Oracle, just as it was different from Sun, and
> just as it differs from any one company. OOo is a community of
> differences and likes.


I think, we agree, that people within Sun / Oracle have been working 
hard within the last 10 years did contribute massively to 
OpenOffice.org. At the same time they were working on StarOffice, what 
now became "Oracle Open Office". People inside Sun often have manager 
role in the company and are project lead at OpenOffice.org - that's 
quite normal. We lived with this for several years and never discussed 
about comflict of interests, although all those people worked for a 
commercial entity that had own goals - and a free software project at 
the same time.

So now, that Charles (and many others) felt, that it would be worth to 
bring the community into the next decade and work on the idea of an 
independent foundation .. we remove them from their roles because they 
have a conflict of interest?

Wouldn't it be logical to argue that Oracle staff also has a conflict of 
interest?

To me this sounds rather nonsense - we all can work on one project.

But it is hard to work together, when one party of the game starts to 
remove people from their roles or excludes them from discussion. Why do 
mails by some council members need to be moderated to discuss@council?
I did not see a request for this, the council did not agree to remove 
some members and they also did not step back. So how are these actions 
justified?


regards,

André