On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 04:44:04PM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote:
> On Oct 17, 2010, at 3:37 PM, Derek Martin wrote:
> > 
> > Actually I think it is...  You can't legitimately say they've acted
> > unjustly against OSS software, unless you have some basis for saying
> > that they have done something wrong.
> 
> I am not saying that Oracle's actions are unjust or wrong.  

s/unjustly/hostilely/ and the rest of what I wrote still applies, IMO.

> The path it chose, to tell the Foundation members to leave and don't
> come back, serves no purpose other than to alienate that community,
> much as Oracle's passive silence did to the OpenSolaris Governing
> Board and development community.

That is not, in fact, what they said.  They said, in essence, that you
can either be a part of us, or of them, but not both:  

  http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council_Log_20101014
  (22:10:49) louis_to: the point is quite clear
  (22:11:10) louis_to: if the TDF members do not disassociate 
             themselves from the Doc. found. then they must 
	     resign
  (22:11:14) louis_to: by Tuesday

That may or may not constitute hostility to those particular members,
but I see no possible way it can be construed as hostile to Open
Source in general.

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