Hi Rui,
I just read through this whole thread from start to finish after having
gotten a little behind on my email.
Personally the ODF versus OOXML discussion is only of secondary interest
to me, but one thing struck me through this whole debate. Rui, it is
fine to disagree with Miguel and
Michael throughout this discussion belong anywhere. Miguel and Michael
have each done more for free software than most of us can even hope to
aspire to
That doesn't mean what they are doing now is good for free software. Just
ask Mr Raymond ;)
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Miguel and Michael have done remarkable jobs in many situations, and
as such deserve a lot of praise for those jobs.
This one, however, is not a remarkable job and deserves critic.
Regards,
Rui
ps: is how can we do autoSpaceLikeWord95 a snide remark? Is 2004/48/EC
a snide remark? all those
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 20:09 +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
Miguel and Michael have done remarkable jobs in many situations, and
as such deserve a lot of praise for those jobs.
This one, however, is not a remarkable job and deserves critic.
It's not about praise or doing a remarkable
Hi,
I want to suggest opting in for Code of Conduct [1] on foundation-list.
See the Applies to section of CoC for what this means in practical
terms.
[1] http://live.gnome.org/CodeOfConduct
Cheers,
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behdad
http://behdad.org/
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 20:09 +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
Miguel and Michael have done remarkable jobs in many situations, and
as such deserve a lot of praise for those jobs.
This one, however, is not a remarkable job and deserves critic.
That's not the central point in Christian's
The foundation-list is a channel of communication of the GNOME
Foundation membership and therefore is ruled by the charter and
by-laws of the foundation.
See http://foundation.gnome.org/about/charter/ and
http://foundation.gnome.org/about/bylaws.pdf
There you have established rules agreed by all
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 22:52 +0300, Quim Gil wrote:
In this context, and in the foundation related lists, an additional
code of conduct is just redundant.
Understood. But it's just easier to point people to CoC when they
behave poorly.
--
behdad
http://behdad.org/
Those who would give up
Since I do not read what Microsoft says in standards group meetings, I
thank Rui for informating us that it matches what Miguel de Icaza said
here. Putting that similarity together with the nature of his
statements (vague claims that that the criticism of OOXML is flawed),
it becomes a cogent
Hi Richard,
As someone who believes strongly about many things, yet to my knowledge
always argues the case and never the person I don't see why you are
coming out defending such behavior here. My criticism was mainly about
the tone of the debate and for someone who himself never resorted to
name
And put in different words: if anybody is concerned about how this
issue affects the GNOME Foundation and the GNOME project in general
please expose these concerns in a way we can do or say something.
I think the GNOME Foundation should lend its support to the campaign
against
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