On 3/5/10 9:19 AM, "Jonathon Jongsma" <jonat...@quotidian.org> wrote: > > With all of the recent comments about how horrible foundation-list has become, > and how people are unsubscribing because of endless and pointless > argumentation, you *still* can't get yourself to refrain from adding more and > more heat to the thread??? Can you please stop now? Please?
Jonathon, if you find discussion of points that have been raised so disturbing--and that's all I'm doing here--I'm not sure what to tell you. Perhaps it would have been better if someone from the Board had responded to the initial message from Mr. Stallman with regard to Facebook, saying 1) Attempting to rework or redefine GNOME 3 plans at this point, now that they're pretty well set, is not reasonable on this list, especially since there were no such criticisms raised while the process of defining GNOME 3 was actually going on. 2) Spreading what amounts to unfounded rumors regarding third-parties, even if they happen to produce proprietary software, is not acceptable on this list. Much of the subsequent discussion could have been completely avoided. I certainly wouldn't have had anything to say at that point. For my part, I don't think that demanding that discussion be stopped, especially when directed to a single person out of many on the thread, is particularly productive. Or respectful, for that matter, but I've come to understand that "respect" is a pretty elastic commodity around here. _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list