Re: KDE Neon and how to handle this?

On Thu, 11 Feb 2016, Ivan Čukić wrote:

> Dear Boud,
>
>
>> That article was bylined "Bryan is a writer and works as the Social
>> Media Marketing Manager of SUSE."
>>
>> _Therefore_, that article is the opinion of SUSE.
>
> You are really reaching here. This is not an implication you can draw
> from the article nor the byline.

Sorry, there you are wrong: if you tag an article of yours with your
job function, it's done as your job. That's really the end of the story:
Bryan, the Social Media Marketing Manager of SUSE" wrote an article. Its
headline was rude and provocative, I didn't read the rest, but SUSE's
Social Media Marketing Manager wrote that headline. If he had written 
that article on personal title, it would have been bylined "Bryan, father
of seven, passionate collector of priceless Celadon porcelain". (or 
whatever, I am making _this_ part up) Instead, it was written by:

"the Social Media Marketing Manager of SUSE.

Änd the headline was rude, combative and inaccurate.

And it was the headline written by "the Social Media Marketing Manager of SUSE".
>
>> And now you're calling me out for being _rude_ for telling this official
>
> I agree that you were rude.

And why? What was rude, exactly?

>
>> SUSE guy that his project has managed to dropped the ball completely
>
> And off-topic. SUSE is not the topic of this discussion.

And what _is_ the topic? That Bryan manages to write an ill-considered
article, then complains about ill-considered responses? That Neon
shouldn't be a KDE project because SUSE people might Or whatever else?

There is this SUSE guy (no idea about the capatalization preferred today)
who feels piqued because people inside our community start working on
distributing our software. Is that the topic? Well, Linux distributions
are _all_ irrelevant anyway.

-- Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.krita.org, http://www.valdyas.org


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