David Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >When exactly have I 'ranted' against XFree86 and some of it's volunteers? > > I felt personally attacked beyond what might be considered > reasonable by you in some of the forum "discussions" in April this > year.
Because I stated my opinion that everyone involved in XFree86 has some kind of vested interest? > I'm a volunteer leader of an open source project, not a public > official. Oh, and I never did get an apology for the inaccurate > assumptions you publicly presented as fact. If you are talking about your relationship with Tungsten Graphics and contract development done on behalf of Intel, my "inaccurate assumptions" were never presented to be inaccurate. If fact they were mostly just relaying stuff publicly presented on several web sites. ie: you publicly state on your web page you are working on Intel driver code, you worked for Tungsten, Tungsten does contract work for Intel, and Intel tells me that they contract Tungsten specifically because the leader of XFree86 work theres. Where is the inaccurate assumption? > My personal life seem to take up an inordinate amount of your attention > for some reason. Thanks mate. Honestly I don't give two hoots about your personal life, just what you do as the leader of XFree86. What I do care about is if someone is using their power as the leader of XFree86 for commercial gain while trying to hide that fact from the community. If you are doing commercial development because you need to get paid and put food on the table, that's fine, just don't try to hide the fact. Be open about what you do and let the community decide whether they they feel that is acceptable behaviour from the leader or not. For instance do you really think it is acceptable or 'fair to the community' for your new company X-Oz to be selling proprietry versions of XFree86? Don't you think that is an abuse of your power as the leader of XFree86 (something over which you have pretty tight control)? Oh wait, I forgot. XFree86 is run by the board of directors and are not accountable to what the community thinks nor has to disclose anything. My bad. Regards, --- Kendall Bennett Chief Executive Officer SciTech Software, Inc. Phone: (530) 894 8400 http://www.scitechsoft.com ~ SciTech SNAP - The future of device driver technology! ~ _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
