--On Sunday, December 1, 2002 6:01 PM -0500 Rodent of Unusual Size <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

5. is it an all-or-nothing proposition (everyone has them or no-one
does)?

-1.  someone tries to force its opinion on me about how i may
choose to express myself and describe my participation in the asf,
i tell it to sod off in no uncertain terms.  if someone doesn't
like it, then it should a) not do it, and b) not look at others.
but don't obstruct people who think the idea has value,
particularly since it won't affect *you* in any way. (generic 'you'
there, not anyone in mind at all.)

I'm afraid of it reflecting poorly upon the ASF. Not matter how hard you try to say that the content isn't representative of the ASF as a whole, as long as the content is hosted on our site/domain, it will be deemed as such.


Imagine the day when one of our committers rants about Java on their community.apache.org/~name page and it is posted to /. and Sun gets its panties in a knot due to the bad publicity. If a member or committer does this in a non-ASF forum, fine. But, giving people a platform from which to imply association with the ASF isn't helpful to the foundation or its mission.

Reacting passively to these situations isn't going to help. Once the story would be posted on /., we're all in hot water. I believe the best course of action is not to encourage this behavior. -- justin

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