I don't like being wrong, and it really bugs me when I am.  (I guess
this must leave me in a perpetual state of being bugged.)  While I
still feel that Michael may have made some errors, that's no excuse
for me to misbehave, and it also certainly doesn't mean that there
wasn't honor in his actions.  Call me wishy-washy if you want, but I
will reverse my position on something immediately if it becomes
apparent that I was in correct.  So I hope Michael will accept my
apologies.

Some comments:

- Michael Larabel's original Phoronix article was posted the DAY
BEFORE my initial post to OGML.  The timing of that is coincidence,
since I didn't even know about it.  Michael Meeuwisse's email, which
ended up in Larabel's second article, was written in response to
Larabel's first article.  This was completely unrelated to what I did.
 While I may not agree with some of what Meeuwisse said, he was merely
responding to the article and presenting his true interpretation of
events.

- I note that Meeuwisse mentioned that we were associated with a
company, and he claimed that we (the OGP, members of Traversal, etc.)
did something improper.  He did NOT (in his posting) claim that Tech
Source did anything improper.  Most importantly, he did not mention
Tech Source by name.  While you can flame Traversal all you want, I'm
worried about making Tech Source look bad.  (They have been very good
to us.)  I interpret Michael's omission of names as an intentional act
of careful discretion, which is very much appreciated.

- While Traversal's role was common knowledge on OGML, I'm inclined to
accept other people's assertion that it was not common knowledge
elsewhere.  This means that we did not communicate this very well
elsewhere, and we should have.  People shouldn't be expected to read
through past OGML archives to find out the details.

-- 
Timothy Normand Miller
http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti
Open Graphics Project
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