Subject: Re: Bruce Perens rejected from license-proliferation committee.
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.licenses.open-source.general
Date: 2005-08-23 01:29:30 GMT (3 years, 45 weeks, 23 hours and 47 minutes ago)
Expires: This article expires on 2005-09-06
Bruce Perens writes: > Russell Nelson wrote: > >That you have taken this discussion public says something > >unfortunate about you. > > > Do you really feel it's appropriate to make ad-hominem attacks from your > position on the OSI board? Yes, because you're making pro-hominem arguments for your inclusion. Didn't the lid on Pandora's box CLEARLY say "Do not open for eternity" when you opened it? In fact, you weren't rejected because you were or were not Bruce Perens on the night of September 22, 1997. You were rejected because you were person N+M on a committee of N people where M>0. No malice intended; you just didn't make the cut; sorry that you weren't even the guy out in right field; hope your feelings weren't hurt (would it help to apologize?). On the other hand, now that you've whined about it publicly, you've made it impossible for us to even begin to start to possibly maybe consider adding you to the committee, much less admitting error in not doing so initially. If your kid (and I know you have kids) whines about getting a candy bar at the grocery store checkout, do you give him one? If you do it once -- even just that one time when you're tired and poor and a huddled mass yearning to breathe free -- you've set a precedent that sufficient whining will get your child what they want. That's a really really bad precedent to set. Millions for defense; but not one cent in tribute. -- --my blog is at blog.russnelson.com | with some experience Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | you know what to do. 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315-323-1241 | with more experience Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | | you know what not to do.