Amen brother, Now back to work...

-David

On Tuesday 18 April 2006 05:25 am, mark wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 April 2006 09:58, Tobias Gerschner wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > just came back from my Easter break waving a goodbye to my parents
> > before leaving to NZ. So sorry for the late reply.
> >
> > Can somebody please give me a short summary ? I did see nothing on
> > http://ftp.yoper.com
> >  Maybe Andreas removed it already ?
> >
> > However, surely Andreas tends to be complicated sometimes (who does
> > not) but he surely does not act that way.
> >
> > And in my opinion there is no use to change the name of the distro (
> > how did this come up ? )
> >
> > Ok, crawling recursively through another 120 emails.
> >
> > regards
> >
> >
> > --
> > Tobias Gerschner
> > Member of Board of Yoper Ltd. NZ
> >
> > Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
>
> Hi Tobias,
> Quick summary -
>
> There was a post to the list about a message on the ftp server from
> Andreas. A quick discussion took place about it where we decided it was
> obviously a left over from a long time ago when Andreas went to Novell.
> The message on the ftp server was picked up by Distrowatch - possibly from
> the posts on this list at a guess.
> Again, the general view was that the message was old - and that Andreas
> probably posted it when he left for Novell. The only real problem left was
> that Distrowatch had posted it on their site, which, reading their site,
> seemed to hint at problems within Yoper between the current devs and
> Andreas. As we all know, that is total rubbish! Andreas developed Yoper on
> his own for years - and, although he now has paid employment with Novell -
> he still takes an interest in what is happening with Yoper.
>
> Thats the basic idea - doubtless you will catch up on the rest of the posts
> later.
> I feel it is all a storm in a teacup - an old message from ages ago on the
> ftp server, which Andreas posted when he left to work at Novell - not a
> rude or derogatory message, just saying bye to Yoper and suggesting people
> looked at Slick and OpenSuSE.  The whole thing would have not been a
> problem until Distrowatch picked it up.
> The fact that the message is now gone seems to indicate that Andreas had
> forgotten the message and has now removed it anyway.
>
> As they say on /. all the time -
>
> "nothing to see here, move along please!"  :)
>
> Yoper is a close community - which is producing a rocking distro - and
> there are always going to be little things like that which will appear.
> Sometimes people leave messages in files or on servers which perhaps mean
> one thing - but, because of the fact that the internet is not a great
> medium for explaining the tone of a message, these things do not always
> come across well. With Yoper being multi-cultural and multi-country based,
> we sometimes see people missing the point of some messages - particularly
> those with humour or sarcasm.  Each of us has their own style - some are
> fairly laid back, others are more direct - and the laid back messages look
> like waffle to the direct people and the direct messages look rather stern
> to the laid back peeps :)
>
> I suggest we let the whole issue slide away. Now the message is gone from
> the server, lets just forget the whole thing :)
>
> Mark
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