Re: Another teleconference partial edited transcript

On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 08:29:59AM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:

>There's nothing really private about it, at least not to my

It is private simply because attendance is by private invitation.  I'm
sure that there are lots of people here who would like to take part,
and they are being cut out of your "process".

>In the spirit of openness, unless I'm mistaken you were also
>invited to participate on the last few calls, as has the XFree86
>board of directors however it's been unfortunate that none of you
>have been able to attend yet for whatever reasons.  Hopefully

Well, you *are*  mistaken.  I have never received an invitation to
participate.  The XFree86 BOD received an invitation to participate in
the call on Thursday, but with only three hours notice.  Not to mention
that the call was scheduled during normal working hours, and all of the
XFree86 BOD are volunteers who have day jobs.  It is difficult to see
how such an invitation could have been made in "good faith".

But you've been around long enough to realise that you can use manipulative
statements like this to your advantage.  If I call you out on your
"mistakes", I'm seen as being defensive.  Do you wonder why some of us
might be wary of attending a private meeting when the mechanism for
publishing it is also so easy to manipulate?

Speaking for myself.

David
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David Dawes
Founder/committer/developer                     The XFree86 Project
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