I like this idea.
LRP/LEAF has an international audience so who cares if you are a registered
foreign agent. It's Open Source.
I will be out tonight, but can look at anything that is circulated and add
my thoughts either late tonight or evening tommorrow.
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Steven Peck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sacramento, CA http://leaf.blkmtn.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Morgan Reed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 6:00 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: OT Re: [Leaf-devel] linuxrouter.org
>
>
> I have read many good suggestions here, but one I have not
> seen mentioned is
> an open letter, signed by all (r as many as possible) of the
> LEAF-dev team,
> expressing our sorrow and disagreement with Dave's decision.
> We would then
> post this letter for the general LRP list.
>
> I think that would be enough. If it ever becomes an issue in
> the future, a
> search of geocrawler will show the sentiment, but I don't
> think we will be
> causing as big a firestorm as we would if we moved to sever links etc.
>
> We are, in essence, engaged in a PR campaign for LRP, and as
> we saw with the
> Linux Gazette article, poorly a informed press leads to
> poorly informed
> articles. Since Dave C has not put forth the kind of effort
> as seen by Rick
> in lrp.c0wz, Charles in EigerStein+, DD in Oxygen, Mike in
> LEAF and the
> countless hours that others have put into LRP, it would be a
> travesty if a
> disagreement over a clearly wrong, and I personally feel an
> immoral stance
> by Dave lead to a loss of recognition in the work everyone else has
> provided.
>
> A letter can help us, as the "face" of LRP, put a layer of separation
> between ourselves and Dave's misguided political message.
> Granted, Dave has
> done a lot of work on LRP, but more importantly happens to
> own the most
> obvious URL. We need to clarify that his ownership of one
> popular URL does
> not confer any extra status on his views. A single, open
> letter should do
> that.
>
> In order to have full disclosure, I should step out of the
> shadows a bit on
> this. As many of you may know, I actually work in Washington
> DC, and used to
> work for Congress. I am happy to answer any and all
> questions about "how it
> works" "are their any conspiracies" "why do they spend all
> my/our money"
> "why do foreigners get all my tax money" "why are all
> politicians corrupt"
> and all that. Please note a certain level of sarcasm in the previous
> statements, but not in my willingness to answer.
>
> By the same token, the level of knowledge many of you bring
> to Linux, I
> bring to issues of Government Relations. If you really care,
> run a google
> search on Morgan W Reed III. Yes, I am a registered foreign agent.
>
>
> Morgan Reed
>
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