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by she on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @12:08

ok this sounds quite good, a win-win situation
make no mistake about this, i think if this works, it will be GREAT for everyone involved here, and for the users just as well.

BUT there is one thing that I want to voice (or ask), even though others might have voiced that already.... will koffice become dependent on it?

I am asking because right now, the whole linux distributions are influenced by companies just as well, and every line of code comes with a price - someone has to understand it at least enough to maintain it.

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Re: hmm
by Sebastian Sauer on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @15:24

My personal feeling is, that there is a huge difference between "a company joins a project" and "a company forms out of a project" since at the later case it's more the project which influences the company rather then the other way around :-)

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Re: hmm
by Inge Wallin on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @15:43

The real divider is whether the company owns the copyright to the program or not. In this case we don't, which I also address in the announcement, so we could never control the KOffice project.

Now, influence is of course something we hope to have, but that's hardly control. KOffice is jointly owned by the developers and that's how it will remain.

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Re: hmm
by Aaron J. Seigo on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @15:54

agreed; there's one other ingredient: the people involved.

in fact, it's the people part of the mix that determine whether the legal safeguards are ever brought into play. usually the legal safeguards, which are extremely reassuring and pretty vital imho, are there for the case where things go wrong. even with safeguards in place, nobody ever wants to go there. so the people being Good, Upright, Honest and Trustworthy are the key ingredients.

both Inge and Boud, along with the rest of the KOffice team, are exactly those kinds of people in my experience having worked along side them in KDE and spent time in purely social circumstances as well. i have no doubts in my mind that with the people who are forming KOfficeSource that a good community relationship will be maintained and that we will likely never end up needing to rely on those legal safeguards.

having both legal safeguards as well a good people is a killer combination. i can only see good things coming of this collaboration =)

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Re: hmm
by Sebastian Sauer on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @17:03

I guess that legal safeguards are no protection against bad influence. IMHO what she@hot.com was refering to are fights between different forces within a project that harm the harmony and have an impact on "how a project feels like". But that's more a general question not related to companies but to individuals aka the people involved what makes it rather difficult to find another answer then what Aaron wrote in his 3th paragraph already (and agreed there too :)

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