Re: answer to Howard or State of the POI (WAS: Re: Jakarta-POI 1.10.0-dev released)

["Daniel F. Savarese" <df...@savarese.org>]

In message <3E...@apache.org>, "Andrew C. Oliver" writes:
>Next, I measure the success of it by two other things:  Microsoft's 
...
>Microsoft sort of way) and the final crux will be the day this 
>http://www.tidestone.com/index.jsp goes out of business.  The first clue 

I don't think this is an attitude we want to promote.  Unless I've
been hoodwinked, the purpose of Apache (sub)projects is not to put
companies out of business.  It may be an unfortunate and unintended
side-effect, but not a motivating goal or metric for success.  Your
statement about causing Microsoft (or any other company for that matter)
to start
>flirting with open file formats (I'm sure it will be "open" in that

is much healthier.

daniel



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Re: answer to Howard or State of the POI (WAS: Re: Jakarta-POI 1.10.0-dev released)

["Andrew C. Oliver" <ac...@apache.org>]

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>I don't think this is an attitude we want to promote.  Unless I've
>been hoodwinked, the purpose of Apache (sub)projects is not to put
>companies out of business.  It may be an unfortunate and unintended
>side-effect, but not a motivating goal or metric for success.  Your
>statement about causing Microsoft (or any other company for that matter)
>to start
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>>flirting with open file formats (I'm sure it will be "open" in that
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>is much healthier.
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Thats why it was under the "personal" header.  I would like to put this 
company out of business.  Its one of my personal measures of success. 
(With POI I'm only aiming for one particular business unit, I have 
another project which will put Acutate out of business, more on this later).

So while Apache might not exist to do that, everyone needs a hobby 
right?  This is mine. :-)

-Andy

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