On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Thierry Carrez <thie...@openstack.org>wrote:
> Luke Gorrie wrote: > > That's a really harsh threat being made against a really vaguely defined > > group. > > > > I don't want to have to read between the lines on threats posted to > > openstack-dev to see if my reputation will be in tatters in the morning. > > > > This spoiled my day today, and I have nothing to do with whatever > > incident you guys with privileged information are talking about. > > I'm sorry to hear that. I didn't mean that as a threat: my point was > that at some point, some company will be called out on their > non-cooperative behavior. It just takes an enraged person and an ML post > or a tweet. Since so far all those incidents successfully didn't name > anyone, it will feel very unfair to the first company that gets hit by > such reputational backlash. > > My advice was therefore that you should not wait for that to happen to > engage in cooperative behavior, because you don't want to be the first > company to get singled out. > > This kind of reputational pressure is at work all the time in the Linux > Kernel project, where companies which contribute less or engage in bad > behavior are routinely mentioned (sometimes in very offensive ways). I > don't think we can prevent this happening in OpenStack unless > cooperation stays the norm. > > Well put Thierry! Just to add, part of the intent here is that it's good to do things publicly so as to avoid any misconceptions. > -- > Thierry Carrez (ttx) > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >
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