On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 11:04:01AM -0300, Guilherme de S. Pastore wrote: > Em Sex, 2007-06-29 às 15:51 +0200, Robert Millan escreveu: > > The message is political in nature, but its tone is not something that I > > would find offensive or rude. > > I personally think this has already been discussed ad nauseam for the > past months, without any indication that a reasonable outcome would be > possible - otherwise we wouldn't have got where we got, IMHO - and that > it is an unnecessary burden on the project's productivity since the last > settlements.
To clarify, in the message Sven doesn't talk about himself at all. He just makes points about his opinion on the "Social Committe" proposal. They could be points made by anyone else. > > Sven also told me that if nobody will forward it, he will "make it by the > > slashdot way". Whatever that means, I don't personaly think being publicly > > discredited by our mistakes is something we want as a community. > > I'm sorry, but in my dictionary that translates as blackmail. *THAT* I > don't think the Debian Project or any of its members should accept. If > he is overly prejudicial or distorts the facts in public, we might just > as well respond to them, either with words or with actions. It's surely > a lot of work and headache, but I think it's better than accepting these > threats. Please excuse me for not representing him properly in my previous mail. He asked me to clarify that this wasn't at all intended as a threat. > > OTOH, I can understand why a person > > who has been forcibly silenced would react this way. > > But I don't think the silencing is to blame either, as I guess we are > well aware of the reason why he was forcibly silenced. Blame is meaningless here. Someone who's been forcibly silenced will try to find other ways to speak out. It's a very human behaviour, and wether he's right or not about what he has to say doesn't change this. -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]