On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 13:31:19 -0500 Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Ian Lynch > <ianrly...@gmail.com> wrote: > > <snip> > > > Well one thing that definitely didn't work in the past was > > alienating community members with ill-thought out arguments > > no matter how logical those arguments might appear to an > > individual. The community is made of people with emotions and > > that is why brute logic is often a very ineffective tool. > > > > And the community is also made up of members who think > logically. Emotional responses, denying inconvenient truths, > reinventing history, and other tribal responses are ineffective > tools that can also alienate community members. > > -Rob > Quite honestly I am astounded at the amount of infighting and petty point-scoring that goes on on the Apache OpenOffice lists. Are you grown, rational beings, or sub teen children? Get your act together, or the AOOo project is doomed. -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie>
