On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Florian Effenberger <flo...@documentfoundation.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Greg Stein wrote on 2011-06-04 16.28:
<snip> >> Personally, I think Oracle's choice had more to do with IBM's >> recommendation, than taxes. +1 > I tend to agree. IMO it's all about governance. Non-profit foundations are constrained to act in certain ways. For example, it is hard for either the Apache or the Free Software Foundations to close source donated code. > At least it would have not been impossible at all to work > around that donation isuse, if there had been a will to do so. But I guess > that should not be the topic of this thread. :-) Workarounds would have been possible but would have been slower and less certain to succeed. Donation to a existing non-profit foundation with an established governance model is a quick and sure way to get the code out from for-profit corporate control and to the community. Robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
