Re: A Call For Open Governance Of X Development
David Dawes <[email protected]>
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On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 02:34:50PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: >On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 00:05, David Wexelblat wrote: >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: [email protected] >> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Wall >> > Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 5:56 PM >> > To: [email protected] >> > Subject: Re: [forum] A Call For Open Governance Of X Development >> > >> > % On the XFree86 core team we have no procedure to 'retire' people. >> > >> > [...] >> > >> > True. They are simply expelled and publicly slandered. Or, rather, >> > that's how it looks from here, absent the release of clarifying >> > information by XFree86 and/or Keith Packard. >> > >> >> Again, truth is the ultimate defense to an accusation of slander. We have >> the proof. Posting email threads that were not public in public isn't >> accepted. > >It seems to me that if you knew you weren't going to be able to present >the proof in public, then you shouldn't have made the accusations in >public in the first place. Yes, your're right. We should have just said something like "Keith Packard has parted company with the XFree86 core team so that he can spend more time with his family." Isn't that the accepted code in business? :-) David -- David Dawes Release Engineer/President The XFree86 Project www.XFree86.org/~dawes