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• saulgoode

  2010-11-18 07:34:55

  During the discussion of criticisms of Jono Bacon's "Open Respect" efforts, I couldn't help but notice a rather striking incongruity between one side being characterized as "the Fedora people", "the Fedora community", "certain people in Fedora", "Fedora is the vocal proponents of this whole protest"; while the other is presented as "people are individuals", "people are not their jobs", "something that Jono has taken up as a personal project", and "it's not Canonical, it's him". How does one reconcile the defense of a person based on his individuality and independence of action while at the same time disparaging others as collectively indistinct from their own project affiliations?

• Dr. Roy Schestowitz

  2010-11-18 12:30:22

  I'm always opposing this habit of people doing things which they say are independent from their paymaster. For example, an ACCESS troll (who now admits in his blog also being a "patent troll") was attacking his paymaster's threats outside work hours. There are also examples from other companies like Microsoft ISVs. If someone makes a payment, the context of any action does not matter much; it's the vested interests. Politics and revolving doors present the same conflicts.
  
  I apologise if I made that sound like a Fedora issue; I phrased it poorly without preparation. I could sense at the time that I said some foolish things in this episode.