Re: Tone policing by a member of the community team [Was, Re: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board]

2021-04-12 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 02:56:34PM +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: > Not true, if someone identifies with fascist doctrine, even if they keep > those views off of the project channels, then they are not welcome here, > no matter where they engaged in those kind of activities. Would you care to put

Re: Abusive language on Debian lists

2021-04-09 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
On Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 06:22:57PM -0600, Eldon Koyle wrote: > I have noticed a pattern on Debian lists where we see: > > 1) a polarizing issue is brought up on the list > > 1a) (optional) there is some discussion with a few interesting points > > 2) people start arguing (useful debate

Re: Expulsion process: Sven Luther - Decision

2007-03-30 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
as I am aware, of threatening any DD's membership on account of anti-cabalism or other dissent. Andreas is right. -- Thaddeus H. Black signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Filibustering general resolutions

2006-09-21 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
not say. Not that we shouldn't fix the filibuster flaw; we should. But one might not impute purer motives or better judgment to a hypothetical future DAM than to a hypothetical filibustering DD. Both Constitutional security flaws, and others, stand to be fixed.) -- Thaddeus H. Black 508 Nellie's Cave

Re: Reforming the NM process

2006-04-25 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
of the Project. -- Thaddeus H. Black 508 Nellie's Cave Road Blacksburg, Virginia 24060, USA +1 540 961 0920, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Congratulations

2006-04-13 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
Steve Langasek wrote: I believe you misspelled demonization and distracting... Some august Developers apparently stand above criticism. I do not. I have added the words you suggest to my ~/.ispell_default. Thanks. -- Thad Black signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Congratulations

2006-04-11 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
. Good luck, Leader. Best wishes from the loyal opposition. Active, unstinting cooperation from me during the year, you can depend on. -- Thaddeus H. Black 508 Nellie's Cave Road Blacksburg, Virginia 24060, USA +1 540 961 0920, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Poll: how should Debian derivatives identify their packages?

2006-01-26 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
to the lists, but whose opinion I particularly respect, had voted differently; and (4) changed my vote to more nearly resemble his. This is a fine form of persuasion without excessive list noise. Well done. -- Thaddeus H. Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature

publishing personal DD info

2005-07-19 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
, if this interests you, there it is. Phone me if you like. -- Thaddeus H. Black 508 Nellie's Cave Road Blacksburg, Virginia 24060, USA +1 540 961 0920, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpXr2wOC5QKJ.pgp Description: PGP signature

sarge and the Wall Street Journal

2005-06-08 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
say? I lack past experience in media relations. I don't really know what to say. I don't think that, Get a clue, dude would help. Suggestions? -- Thaddeus H. Black 508 Nellie's Cave Road Blacksburg, Virginia 24060, USA +1 540 961 0920, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpV3H4On17uW.pgp

The source of FSF policy

2005-04-14 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
Several of you work closely with GNU people. A question for you. Is the FSF a body like the IETF, W3C or Debian in which stakeholders make reasonably collaborative policy decisions together? Or is FSF policy more or less another name for the views of Richard M. Stallman? (Or does the reality

Re: Take APT 0.6 discussion public!

2005-02-16 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
nevertheless. -- Thaddeus H. Black 508 Nellie's Cave Road Blacksburg, Virginia 24060, USA +1 540 961 0920, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I would quietly ask that this post not be referenced in the Weekly News. The Weekly News is great and has the honorable right to reference anything it sees fit

Re: handling Mozilla with kid gloves [was: GUADEC report]

2004-07-12 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
My overly clever rhetoric started an unintended quarrel with good free-software people who are my friends not my foes. I ask their pardon. A simpler statement from me would have sufficed. Branden said it better than I did. He wrote, By adopting a milquetoast approach we do the Mozilla

Re: GUADEC report

2004-07-06 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
Matthew's report is interesting and appreciated. Some companies cannot seem to restrain themselves from stirring the mud in the license swamp, can they? Like three-year-old boys, they just love to stir that mud. Some companies feel that various licenses were genuine efforts to be DFSG free