On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 22:55 -0400, Kevin Dangoor wrote: > Ilias emailed me after running up against trouble on the Django list. > I have looked at that wikipedia page. > > Ilias had some valid points on his wiki regarding Django. I don't > mind productive criticism. I also made it clear that I had no > intention of buying services, so that commercial aspect to prior > complaints about him is a non-starter.
I'm sure Patrick K. O'Brien thought the same thing: http://schevo.org/lists/archives/schevo-devel/2006-May/000749.html But reading Ilias' page, he claims that despite Patrick's clear refusal of his commercial services, Orbtech, LLC retained him anyway: http://audit.lazaridis.com/schevo This seems rather odd, given that Orbtech's home page claims that it's lead by Patrick K. O'Brien: http://orbtech.com/ Further, he creates the impression that Patrick's refusal of his services somehow reflected badly on the project lead: http://audit.lazaridis.com/schevo/wiki/SchevoTeamRating So apparently Patrick is at odds with Orbtech management, which would perhaps mark him as schizophrenic (since he *is* the management) or Ilias is a blatant liar. I'm not fond of banning, except in the case of spamming and I think Ilias is a spammer. His technique is more subtle, but the goal is clearly the same. Every single post he makes is sure to include one or more links to his site. The fact that he disguises it as legitimate conversation doesn't change what it is. I don't think he's a troll so much as an entrepreneur with very poor ideas about honesty and how to properly garner business for himself. I don't think he's likely to attract much business from this list, but it does bother me a bit that he's using this list to try to legitimize what is apparently a complete falsehood. I expect it's only a matter of time until he's claiming he's been retained by Blazing Things, LLC to audit TurboGears despite the open animosity the project lead Kevin Dangoor showed toward him <wink>. Watch out Kevin, next thing you know, Blazing Things will have you replaced ;-) Regards, Cliff -- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
