Well, I guess this is pretty enlightening ! I have subscribed to this list in order to find "technical" solutions/hints about Arch (note that I don't use either gnuArch, tla, bazzaar :-)
Now I don't know how all this comes about (nor do I care, BTW), but I would like to know how I get myself into reading tens of insulting, degrading, blaming highly outraged political "essais" ??? Or maybe I DON'T want to know, after all .... Philippe On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 15:55 -0700, Thomas Lord wrote: > I suppose I'll dignify that with a response although there's not > much there to respond to. > > I encourage the very bored to read James' essay. The more jaded will > find nothing new: it's a mishmash of half-remembered economics and > weakly presented libertarian sentiment mixed in with some none-too- > subtle, snide, and indirect slanders against yours truly (or do I > flatter myself too much in identifying myself as the "you-know-who", the > bold-faced "any person", the desperate "individual" of whom he speaks). > > Yes, James, your lack of imagination, absence of intellectualism, > willingness to cynically defame rather than speak to the issues > at hand -- these are all familiar have been long noted. Somebody > toss that boy a dog treat. > > You may not have noticed but nobody here has attacked capitalism. > Andrew's comment that "money corrupts" perhaps comes the closest > but I doubt that even he meant it that way. We can only hope that > a gold-star has been pasted next to your name in the rolls of the > naughty and nice that the VCs and execs in your imagination maintain. > > You may not have noticed that you and yours at Canonical stand > accused of the gratuitous disruption and destruction of a public > project that, prior to your assembly under the financial umbrella > of a wealthy hobbyist, was muddling through and showed considerable > promise of a bright future. What combination of maliciousness, > ignorance, misplaced arrogance, and just plain stupidity led to > such thuggery is a question for the ages but the consequences of > your entirely voluntary behavior is laid bare in everything from > the code itself to my circumstances. At least we can agree > on this much: you were well funded in the effort. > > Perhaps you are unaware that you and yours stand accused of > manufacturing, in effect or by intention (who can say), the perception > that I am difficult to work with. Presumably you have forgotten > boasting to me, early on in this mess, about your personal skill > at manipulating public opinion from your keyboard. > > It's telling that completely absent from your analysis is any > response at all to accusations about the technical quality of > the work you folks have been doing, the longer term implications > of that, and the implications of the entire affair for the relationship > between volunteer labor and the FOSS industry. In the final > analysis, you'll have a hard time justifying your approaches > as even rationally self-interested from your owner's perspective. > > It's fascinating that you have a view of capitalism substantially at > odds with that of the wealthy who modulate the bulk of major > developments in our industry yet at the same time, a view that > well befits a complete tool trying to sell himself to the highest > bidder and damn the consequences. > > There are higher values in life, James, than a vague dedication to > the writings of Ayn Rand. > > There are more lasting ways of doing business, James. > > Having set out to be a destructive force to achieve a petty level > of personal gain, you and yours have succeeded today. Let's see > what all our tomorrow's bring. > > -t > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gnu-arch-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users > > GNU arch home page: > http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/ > _______________________________________________ Gnu-arch-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users GNU arch home page: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/
