Re: [DotGNU]Propoganda starts at home...

[David Sugar]

I agree it could have been handled better.  However, the problem was that me, 
Bradley, and Toni, were all in France, and that there was extremely limited 
internet access.  Maybe at most once a day we could ask something, but if we 
did that it would have taken too long, and often decisions had to be made 
within hours, not days.  In the future it will not be done like this again. 
What we should have asked for was key people's phone numbers, since getting a 
phone was actually often more possible than getting online.

The FSF press release represents the best that could be done when it was 
impossible to reach anyone who needed to make further decisions and with the 
deadline that was...forced upon everyone.

Myrddian wrote:

>  
>
> > I'm actually more than just a little disappointed.  (But the
> > weaknesses of the FSF press release may be more the fault of
> > Ximian than the fault of the FSF, as apparently Ximian has put
> > the FSF under extreme time pressure.  I hope that in the future
> > there will be enough time to consult with us before making a
> > press release.)
>
>
> Yeah the lack of consultation, considering that we did not asked our opinion
> on the mailing list.
>
> I also felt personally isolated from this process, they only asked David and Tony, which 
> have entered some what late on this discussion. At least they could of asked Norbert or me
> about it.
>  
>
> > I think that it is really unfortunate that the press release
> > does not discuss why we consider Microsoft's actions to be a
> > threat for Free Software and Freedom in general, and why the
> > DotGNU and Mono projects are countermeasures against this threat.
> > - That is the message that needs to be sent out in order to
> > attract the developers who are needed for our huge project.
> >
> > I am not surprised that this press release has unfortunately
> > resulted in the kind of press that shows us as in some way
> > endorsing Microsoft's initiative.  I'm really upset about this
> > outcome.
>
>
> Personally I agree, it has made us look more like imitators, and as such we do 
> not
> need that kind of press. Also the way the press has been pointing to our soluttion 
> as something like nothing more than a plain .NET clone is not what we need.
>
> Well my opnion stands that if we should go about this, we should keep it low 
> for now,
> we officially announce the project, and get it rolling.
>
> After a while we make a shout and get attention so they can take a look at the progress 
> we have made.
>  
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> Myrddian <address@hidden(nospam)au>
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