Verily I say unto thee, that Jeffrey Stedfast spake thusly:
[snip dictionary quote]
I really don't think I need to take English lessons from a Yank.
If the /article/ had been "retracted", then it wouldn't be there any
more (it is). If Asay wished to retract his /opinion/ then he'd make it
clear that his opinion had changed (he doesn't). What /is/ clear from
the article is that he now feels that it was "not [his] place" to pass
judgement on de Icaza, but at no point does he retract his opinion.
This is merely an apology for making his opinion public. Presumably he
feels that, in retrospect, he should have exercised more diplomacy.
But by all means call it a "retraction" if it'll make you sleep easier.
>> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2007-June/msg00428.html
>>
> I'm not sure what this has to do with me
Just FYI, that's all. Since you seem to be one of those dedicated to
spreading the infection of Mono, I thought you'd be interested to know
that it is slowly becoming inextricable from Gnome. I assume from your
indifferent response that you're not denying that fact then?
> but a quick google of the problem reveals that someone not affiliated
> with myself nor Novell added the libbeagle dependency to Yelp.
Well naturally, since Yelp is a *Gnome* project. The fact is that
libbeagle is now a Yelp dependency, regardless of who committed the crime.
> You would have realized this, too, had you spent 30 seconds doing a
> little fact-checking.
A little more "fact-checking" reveals that this problem (that you
apparently know nothing about) seems to be affecting a number of other
distros too:
OpenSUSE:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-commit/2007-09/msg00634.html
Ubuntu:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntustudio/+bug/114957/comments/7
Fedora 7 (confirmed infection):
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=262838
Madriva (this guy is *really* not happy about libbeagle infecting his
system):
http://www.beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2007/09/06/07/24/16-2-minutes-about-copernic
Apparently this infection has been spreading for a while, starting as
far back as April 2006:
http://www.lyricswithoutmelody.org/beagle/?p=12
No, actually *January* 2006:
http://www.lyricswithoutmelody.org/beagle/?p=11
I'm sure it's all just coincidental though.
Once again, let me just extend my warm thanks, for your participation in
poisoning the Free Software tree with Microsoft IP.
--
K.
http://slated.org
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