Software in the Public Interest, the contributor-led not-for-profit corporation that supports debian GNU/Linux, OpenVAS, OpenOffice.org and an ‘ole load of other free software projects meets tonight (Wednesday 9th) at 20:30 UTC in #spi on irc.spi-inc.org. The agenda has been published and the main item to be discussed is adding LibreOffice as an associated project.
What do you think of that, then? SPI supporting both LibreOffice and OpenOffice? A balanced position, fence-sitting or something else?
I don’t see any fundamental problem with supporting multiple “competing” Open Source projects.
However, at some point SPI should carefully consider the continued merit of supporting a dead project.