>To me, this is /the/ issue in our discourse as a community. I'm happy we >got many substantive issues out on the table that were articulated >absolutely professionally (and those posts were obvious), but we also >attacked far too many people -- and entire groups and communities, >actually -- in the process (and those attacks were obvious as well). I'm >perfectly willing to accept that the aggressive behavior comes from a >minority of people, but unfortunately in many community-wide threads >like this they can carry the day.
>I may be making more of this than is necessary. It's just my opinion I'm not sure I agree; I think overall the debate has been passionate; I would not call it aggressive. But that's perhaps because I've been dealing with online discussions for many years; missing inflexions makes it difficult to assess the precise force with which statements are made; I find that it's better to err on the "I'm sure he meant f*in' b*r'd in an endearing way". Yep, this type of discussion does away with all the niceties of polite conversation; I much rather have that, though, than Blair saying "Noone is contemplating on attack on Iran". We just call 'm as we see 'm. I think your PR bacjkround has made you used to slightly more polite discourse :-) That's why I think it's fine for the OGB/CAB not to interfere as if we're refereeing a boxing match. There's the occassional Troll, but they seem to be fairly harmless. Now, it must be said that I read some non-technical Dutch newsgroups; and the behaviour there is absolutely horrific; with ad-hominem being the norm, not the exception (of course, political and "general" science groups attract for more crackpots than other groups, but there's something particularly wrong with how this works in the nl. hierarchy) As a very opiniated person myself, I'm not looking toward leadership for providing the "right" opinion. I'm also a laissez-faire kinda guy (I'd prefer to describe my self as an anarcho-liberal as opposed to the libearls who are generally conservatives, the conservatives who are really right wing and the progressive who are generally reactionaries.) I think the CAB/OGB will make a fair assessment of where the community stands wrt GPLv3 and dual licensing, heaving heard the arguments on both sides. Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
