Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-incubator-general-archive@www.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-general-archive@www.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3F86042B4 for ; Mon, 6 Jun 2011 05:57:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 31211 invoked by uid 500); 6 Jun 2011 05:57:18 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-general-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 31088 invoked by uid 500); 6 Jun 2011 05:57:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact general-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: general@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list general@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 31080 invoked by uid 99); 6 Jun 2011 05:57:16 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 06 Jun 2011 05:57:16 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [83.97.42.2] (HELO lilly.ping.de) (83.97.42.2) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with SMTP; Mon, 06 Jun 2011 05:57:10 +0000 Received: (qmail 30199 invoked from network); 6 Jun 2011 05:56:48 -0000 Received: (ofmipd 85.22.13.252); 6 Jun 2011 05:56:26 -0000 Date: 6 Jun 2011 07:56:47 +0200 Message-ID: <4DEC6C1F.5010803@ping.de> From: "Andreas Kuckartz" To: general@incubator.apache.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110510 Icedove/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Legal concern: Are we getting to close ot a "division of markets" conversation? References: <316692.4767.qm@web161429.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <314091.20908.qm@web161406.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Am 06.06.2011 03:08, schrieb robert_weir@us.ibm.com: > But I am very very very concerned that this conversation is starting to > cross over into a "division of market" conversation, which has stiff > penalties under US and international competition law. Open source work, > like standards, is work done voluntarily among competitors in the market. > There are some things we must not talk about, especially things where > competitors may be seen as arranging to reduce competition. We need to > steer the conversation far from this. The discussion is not about reducing competition but about a reasonable potential division of labor between Open Source projects to avoid duplicate work. For some it might also be about eliminating an existing monopoly regarding office applications. To some extent this requires joining forces, not dividing them. Cheers, Andreas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscribe@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-help@incubator.apache.org