[odf-discuss] GNOME Foundation Statement on ECMA TC45-M Participation

[Jean Hollis Weber]

I completely agree with everything Daniel says below.

--Jean


Daniel wrote:
> To all:
> 
> If I had been in Jeff's place, I would have given up on talking to this 
> list long ago. I'm sorry, but people in this list, in particular PJ, 
> have been quite vicious in their attacks and have taken the slightest 
> nuance of everything Jeff says as proof that Gnome is the spawn of the 
> devil. What has occurred in this list is not civil discourse, and it 
> should not have been allowed.
> 
> I intend this to be my only email to this thread, because honestly I 
> have no energy for the kind of discussion that is going on in this 
> thread. I am embarrassed to think that this is the kind of group I 
> helped form. This is not at all the community I envisioned when the 
> Fellowship was first created. I dreamed that it would be a place where 
> people would work constructively to make real progress for ODF. I did 
> not expect that today it would one day resort to witch hunts and "you 
> are either for us or against us" kind of positions and in-fighting with 
> other FOSS projects.
> 
> I don't expect that this email will alter the views of those who have 
> participated in this thread. I expect that nothing will. But maybe 
> others readers will get something from my post.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Daniel.