I feel the same way. While I can truly comprehend the emotional situation and respect the need to voice it I have a hard time not to respond to some of the assumptions made here about software design and development, ‘code base’, ‘core’, etc.
Andy On Mar 09, 2014, at 9:12, Dan Yargici <[email protected]> wrote: > I just want to go on the record and say that I've found it really > disappointing reading the list over the last week. > > It seems that there is quite a number people who are very new to it that have > just come here to vent in a totally inappropriate manner that goes against > all that this list has been about over the years. The great signal-to-noise > ratio that everyone lauds has completely tipped off the scale into the > negative IMO. > > I know this is huge news, I know that it feels like a massive kick in the > balls and i agree that it's a huge injustice to the software and the people > that use and depend on it; but It's telling that so many of the names that > made this community (and arguably the software itself) what it is are > completely silent or absent from discussions about this. > > It's obvious that people are upset (myself as well, more than you can > imagine) but I feel like I'm reading a forum overrun with spambots... That's > my personal reason for being so silent. > > The saddest thing would be if we can't keep our community coherent. > > DAN
