Cmon Jim, he wrote a lengthy monologue which spelled
out his position. As I read it, we could license
the OpenOffice trademark to the Document Foundation
for, as Simon put it, "business as usual" distributions.
If we wanted to we could specify a time/date/event
upon which that license terminates, and the "new"
stuff going on at the ASF would be distributing code
under the mark.
----- Original Message ----
> From: Jim Jagielski <jim@jaguNET.com>
> To: general@incubator.apache.org
> Sent: Fri, June 3, 2011 1:58:51 PM
> Subject: Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting the
Community?
>
>
> On Jun 3, 2011, at 1:36 PM, Simon Phipps wrote:
>
> >
> > On 3 Jun 2011, at 17:52, Ian Lynch wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Florian,
> >>
> >>
> >>> I do see with great concern is the need for a second project to be set-up
> >>> at Apache or any other entity.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Thing is that this is done, Oracle didn't and won't now give the IP to any
> >> other foundation. So we are where we are.
> >
> > We may be where we are, but we collectively have the opportunity to
>collaborate once Oracle has gone - that's what "open" means. "My way or the
>highway" talk - from any side - is detestable. ASF has the opportunity to
>reject the bait to head down the path of ideological conflict, choose a
>conciliatory path that respects the existing community and especially to use
>the trademark (which is the only actual asset being transferred) for everyone's
>good.
> >
>
> Let's be honest: by "collaborate" you mean have the ASF simply
> xfer the code and the trademark to TDF and walk away... At least,
> that is the strong impression you give. Please correct me if I'm
> wrong.
>
>
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