Re: Thanks, and a Brief Survey

[Philip Van Hoof <pvanhoof gnome org>]

On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 10:37 -0500, john palmieri wrote:


> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 7:02 AM, Philip Van Hoof <pvanhoof gnome org>
> wrote:

> > The results are more than enlightening to me. The surveys definitely
> > are useful and insightful.
>         
> > They sharply illustrate that open source developers are far more
> > pragmatic than certain people in the audience would like us to be.


> Thanks for relegating the opposing view to "certain people".  It is
> certainly intelectually honest of you to put them in all in the same
> bucket and then crap in it. 

These people aren't who I refer to as "certain people".

In the next section I clarify that "certain people" means the people who
are very disruptive. Cutting it away doesn't change that I wrote exactly
that.

Let me be helpful and put it back for you:

> > Given that some of those people have been very disruptive, it for me
> > absolutely was needed to confront them with numerical reality.

I'll [cut] the rest of your E-mail away now, because this renders it all
not relevant to what I wrote.

Cheers,

Philip

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