Six of one—and no mention of the other?

Six of one—and no mention of the other?

Posted Aug 4, 2009 1:30 UTC (Tue) by sladen (guest, #27402)
Parent article: CentOS turbulence and enterprise Linux tradeoffs

Here's my last interaction with Lance Davis, all documented publicly on the {kde,gnome}-uk mailing lists:

• 2008-October/msg00012.html (12:07:45 +0100, question sent)
• 2008-October/msg00013.html (12:16:20 +0100, reply received)

Why did I (as a third party) even have to write this email? ...Because nobody had bothered to ask Lance Davis for what they wanted. Three hours later—unprompted—Lance Davis replied again, with an update that (gratis) booth space was sorted.

Sometimes my belief in human beings as willing communicators able to just ask for what they desire, simply astounds me.

If LWN allows the phrase "flushed out" into an article in the future, I do hope to read at least one quote from both sides—or a note covering why it was not been possible. In short, articles should aim to be balanced summary, because we already read the witch-hunt announcements first-hand, and they didn't need copyediting.

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Six of one—and no mention of the other?

Posted Aug 5, 2009 2:24 UTC (Wed) by spiro (guest, #54657) [Link]

> Sometimes my belief in human beings as willing communicators able to just ask for what they desire, simply astounds me.

My impression is that many people consider asking a question confrontational and this politically correct society wants to avoid confrontation more than ever before. Or maybe this was always the case, but the wonders of globalisation have brought us into contact with a wider variety of people.

Sorry about dawdling off topic slightly.. :)