Re: Release coordination - a clarification

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org>]

On 22Jun2001 11:57PM (+0200), Martin Baulig wrote:
> Dave Mason <gnome dmason net> writes:
> 
> > Please do not listen to the press' conspiracy theories. Please do not
> > listen to individual's conpiracy theories. Lets all grow up, work on
> > GNOME and quit giving out more inaccurate fodder for people to feed on.
> > When you reach a certain level of success (like GNOME, Ximian, or Red
> > Hat) people are always looking for something bad to say about you. We
> > can accept these things as a sign of our success but we don't need to
> > perpetuate them, or buy into them.
> 
> Hey, let's not start another flame-war just because some press guy was
> writing nonsense. I was just clarifying that this is nonsense.
> 

Hi Martin,

I read your email as quite a serious accusation against Red Hat and
Owen and Havoc in particular; it strongly implied that Red Hat people
were spreading misinformation, and this is apparently not true. You
could have at least asked someone from Red Hat before making an
accusation like this in public. I know your email contained the words
"I don't mean to accuse Red Hat", but that's basically what it did.

I think you (and Miguel) owe the Red Hat folks an apology for
spreading these kinds of baseless rumors.

Regards,

Maciej

(Who does not work at Red Hat, never has, and has no plans to do so
any time soon.)