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Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:03:02 -0800
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Subject: Re: Time for the ASF to send an Open Letter?
From: Danese Cooper <danese@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Ross Gardler
<rgardler@opendirective.com>wrote:

> On 15 November 2011 18:31, Jim Jagielski <jim@jagunet.com> wrote:
> > Why the AL is important for such a "standard"
> > such as Open Office and ODF;
>
> Hey, we can even quote Stallman there.
>
> I'm not sure I'm +1 on an open letter or not. I certainly like Rob's
> manifesto/top ten type idea. I'm not sure we need something that might
> be seen as aggressive, if the TDF as a whole really reacted the way we
> were told then such a letter may be seen as an attack on the TDF
> itself, rather than an attempt to address FUD from a few.
>
> Ross
>

+1 to what Ross is saying (and I think Simon was trying to get at the same
issue).  A list of things we're doing (from the project, *not* the
figurehead of ASF) would probably be less contentious.

Danese

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>
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> Ross Gardler (@rgardler)
> Programme Leader (Open Development)
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