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Peace?

Peace?

Posted May 15, 2003 14:13 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1)
Parent article: Christopher Blizzard of mozilla.org Speaks on the Firebird Naming Conflict (MozillaZine)

It's almost a exactly year, now, since we made it possible to post comments on LWN. We've managed to avoid a flat-out flamewar all that time - until now. I guess it was inevitable.

Could I respectfully suggest, however, that this conversation has gone about as far as it needs to? Let's all go off and flame SCO; we can agree on that one...:)


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Peace?

Posted May 16, 2003 16:13 UTC (Fri) by Baylink (guest, #755) [Link]

Apparently, Jon, no, you can't. :-}

Peace?

Posted May 19, 2003 5:38 UTC (Mon) by frodoballs (guest, #10827) [Link]

You know, the real problem here is that engineers aren't usually good diplomats. It speaks
rather badly of Mozilla.org's adult supervision that they allowed engineers to handle this
name change and then didn't rein them in when the firestorm began. A simple 'Mea Culpa'
early on from Mozilla would have done wonders for PR on both sides of the fence.

And it doesn't matter who's right -- the point is that the situation as it stands is in no one's
best interest. Sometimes you have to be an adult and stand on higher ground. Seems like
Mozilla's allowing themselves to be driven by engineering ego, at least just a little bit...

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