A day in the life of the CentOS team [LWN.net]

A day in the life of the CentOS team

Posted Mar 26, 2006 5:57 UTC (Sun) by jayorke (guest, #10685)
In reply to: A day in the life of the CentOS team by kokopelli
Parent article: A day in the life of the CentOS team

> I'm sure the CentOS people would seem just as clueless if they suddenly
> found themselves facing what they believed to be an urgent problem on an,
> oh, AS/400.

I doubt they would call IBM and accuse them of being criminals.

> Both sides handled this poorly (including the publication of the
> exchange -- how many managers will read this and avoid Linux because
> they think the community is too immature to trust?).

I don't think it is abnormal for accusations of criminal activity to be responded to in public. When NTP accuses RIM of patent violations it isn't kept very quiet. If this was a normal support call being posted online making fun of someone's lack of technical knowledge (i.e. my computer doesn't work... oops it isn't plugged in) then I would agree that it is inappropriate to disclose the identity of the person who makes the call to the general public. However, falsely accusing someone of criminal activity goes beyond a normal support call and I think the public airing of this is warranted.

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