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Divisive Behavior
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| Past Sins
|
| Sam Varghese wrote an article about
| Matthew Garrettâs LCA talk âThe Linux
| community: what is it and how to be a part
| of itâ [1]. In page 2 Sam quotes Martin
| Krafft as asking about how Matthewâs
| behavior had changed between 2004 and the
| present, Sam cites some references for
| Matthewâs actions in 2005 to demonstrate.
| I think that this raises the issue of how
| far back it is reasonable to go in search
| of evidence of past behavior, something
| that I think is far more important than
| the specific details of what Matthew said
| on mailing lists many years ago and
| whether he now regrets such email.
|
| If someone did something that you consider
| to be wrong yesterday and did the same
| thing five years ago you might consider it
| to be evidence of a pattern of behavior.
| If someoneâs statements today donât match
| their actions yesterday then you should
| consider it to be evidence of hypocrisy.
| But if someone did something five years
| ago which doesnât match their current
| statements then in many situations it
| seems more reasonable to consider it as
| evidence that they have changed their
| mind.
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http://etbe.coker.com.au/2010/02/23/divisive-behavior/
Another FS supporter tells his story:
Matt Lee â super hacker
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| Upon my return to the UK, my colleagues at
| work informed me that I'd been in The
| Guardian, and sure enough, checking the
| newspaper's website, I was there, as part
| of a collection of '24 hours in pictures'
| for August 10th, 2007.
|
| This seemed like a reasonable mistake, but
| my attempts to contact The Guardian and
| also the photographer were not
| satisfactory. Unable to be able to get a
| free license (CC-BY or CC-BY-SA) of my own
| image, I made a copy of the image and
| promptly forgot all about it.
|
| Until today, March 2nd 2010, when my
| colleague at my new job passed me a
| support ticket with the message "OMG".
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http://matt.lee.name/super-hacker.html
Recent:
Mono sinks its claws into Fedora
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| The project has been dogged by controversy
| because many people reason that, as many
| parts of .NET have not been released to
| ECMA, a private standards organisation,
| implementing those parts may lead to patent
| problems down the line.
|
| In June this year, the Fedora project
| announced that it had decided to get rid of
| Tomboy, a note-taking application dependent
| on Mono and replace it with Gnote, a port
| of Tomboy in C++/Gtkmm released by former
| Novell developer Hubert Figuiere.
|
| Earlier this year, when Microsoft made what
| appeared to be a promise not to sue those
| who implemented the ECMA-covered parts of
| .NET, de Icaza admitted that he had been
| developing parts of .NET which were not
| covered by the specification, even though
| he had been developing Mono for nearly
| eight years.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/29496/1090/
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