Re: email threat

1999-04-07 Thread Keith Beattie
On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 11:52:30AM -0700, Britton Kerin wrote: > When the leader or > representative of a group is stigmatized as a dangerous gun nut this rubs > off on the rest of the group, so please be careful what you say. Ah, but this is one of the reasons why the open source / free software

Re: email threat

1999-04-06 Thread Britton Kerin
> bruce writes: > > Because I know that Eric is a firearms enthusiast, for my own protection, > > I feel the best strategy is for me to publicize the threat widely. > > And quotes: > > Damn straight I took it personally. And if you ever again behave like > > that kind of disruptive asshole in pu

Re: email threat

1999-04-06 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>I'm tempted to say "he's just a nut", but he's the >head of the Open >Source >Initiative. What annoyed him is that I cricicized the >Apple license. >The full >text of the threatening email can be found at >http://perens.com/Articles/Threat.html . I hope you two can work out your differences befo

Re: email threat

1999-04-06 Thread MallarJ
I have two things to say about this, or maybe three: 1) Am I the only one that is tired of hearing about the bickering between these two? and on a Debian-user list? and on a public mailing list? 2) If the authorities have been notified - fine, leave us out of it. 3) Don't make judgements until

email threat withdrawn

1999-04-06 Thread bruce
Eric says he only meant to threaten me with "defamation of character", not with any kind of violence. Thus, I think I'll just let this issue drop now. Thanks Bruce

Re: email threat

1999-04-06 Thread John Hasler
Ed Slocomb writes: > The most ominous part of it is the quote at the end. Let's > all hope, for the sake of civil discourse, that it was auto-generated. It almost certainly was. Eric has some sort of random sig generator. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAI

Re: email threat

1999-04-06 Thread Ed Slocomb
> Regardless of what your differences are with Eric this message should not > have been posted to this list. > May I politely suggest that you reconsider that? Eric should not have written the letter to begin with. An apology to Bruce is long overdue. Every one of Bruce's criticisms of the

Re: email threat

1999-04-06 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Bruce, if you are actually in fear for your life the police are the right forum for this. It appears that you are trying to once again publicly defame Eric in front of the Linux community. This message is about embarrassment and character assassination hid beneath a patina of fear. Regardless o

Re: email threat

1999-04-06 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 5 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Forgive my ignorance here (and my curiousity) but just ... who is Eric > > Raymond, and who are you (or what you've done/said) so that he threatens > > you? > > I'm tempted to say "he's just a nut", but he's the head of the Ope

Re: email threat

1999-04-06 Thread John Hasler
bruce writes: > Because I know that Eric is a firearms enthusiast, for my own protection, > I feel the best strategy is for me to publicize the threat widely. And quotes: > Damn straight I took it personally. And if you ever again behave like > that kind of disruptive asshole in public, insult me

Re: email threat

1999-04-05 Thread bruce
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Forgive my ignorance here (and my curiousity) but just ... who is Eric > Raymond, and who are you (or what you've done/said) so that he threatens you? I'm tempted to say "he's just a nut", but he's the head of the Open Source Initiative. What annoyed him is that I cricici

Re: email threat

1999-04-05 Thread homega
[EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit: > Today I received the following threat in e-mail from Eric Raymond. The message > was copied to the Silicon Valley Linux User's Group officers, who you may > consult regarding its authenticity. The police have been notified. > > Because I know that Eric is a firearms ent

Re: email threat

1999-04-05 Thread Vincent Murphy
On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 10:48:42PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Today I received the following threat in e-mail from Eric Raymond. The message is this for-real? -vinny

Re: email threat

1999-04-05 Thread thomas lakofski
On 5 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ESR wrote:] > > Damn straight I took it personally. And if you ever again behave like > > that kind of disruptive asshole in public, insult me, and jeopardize > > the interests of our entire tribe, I'll take it just as personally -- > > and I will find a w

email threat

1999-04-05 Thread bruce
Today I received the following threat in e-mail from Eric Raymond. The message was copied to the Silicon Valley Linux User's Group officers, who you may consult regarding its authenticity. The police have been notified. Because I know that Eric is a firearms enthusiast, for my own protection, I fe