Peace?
Peace?
Posted May 16, 2003 16:13 UTC (Fri) by Baylink (guest, #755)In reply to: Peace? by corbet
Parent article: Christopher Blizzard of mozilla.org Speaks on the Firebird Naming Conflict (MozillaZine)
Apparently, Jon, no, you can't. :-}
Posted May 19, 2003 5:38 UTC (Mon)
by frodoballs (guest, #10827)
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And it doesn't matter who's right -- the point is that the situation as it stands is in no one's
You know, the real problem here is that engineers aren't usually good diplomats. It speaks Peace?
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.
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...