On Friday 10 October 2003 07:43 am, David Roden wrote:
> Zlatin Balevsky wrote:
> > Or emply the slightly less strategy of ignoring them until they go
>
> away or the slightly more aggresive strategy of raising lastGoodBuild
> (as well as droping the site).
>
> Yeah, cool, let's apply some censorship to things we don't like.

Mmmm. I love this. The Project owns that page, it's a part of their software. 
You can argue that they have a certain responsibility to be fair with it, but 
is it not within their responsibility to make sure that they're not 
supporting a project that is actively destructive to their own?

If you go beyond all the posturing, here, all fid is is an active 
encouragement for people to put their datastores on strike. I don't see how 
their intent could be anything else. Certainly their stated intent is 
technically ignorant, based more on voodoo than fact. And if they wanted to 
achieve their stated goals, some of which are quite good ideas, there are far 
more constructive, responsible ways that they could have gone about it.

I don't see any reason for the developers to be friendly with, or even 
accommodating of, such a project. They've already offered more than could 
have been expected. If they don't want to provide that link -- fine. 
Hopefully some people will step up to provide some new indices. Personally, 
what I'd rather see would be a clear statement, coming from, say, Ian, rather 
than me, giving his POV of why fid is destructive, and a request made to YoYo 
to post that nearby. "Rebuttals of similar quality" is a good, responsible 
practice.

Cheers
--hobbs

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