Brilliant man, but so positively, absolutely 100% gay.

One of his other lies: his dad is not a Physic nor his mother a Biologyst. His dad is a not so brilliant math professor, and his mother remains until present day in a mental institution.

I find it amusing that you guys get so upset when people use personal attacks against you

When I talk about personal attacks, I typically talk about:

• Outright libel. Examples include: Roy is castrated, Roy is gay, Roy has a criminal record, Roy molests children, etc. – some of that slanderous stuff is being posted to forums by people who even fake my own identity (pretending to post as myself). It’s character assassination based upon bald-face lies and ‘placements’ of these lies in the Web.
• Throwing the baby out with the bathwater. On numerous occasions, people have nitpicked and found inaccurate bits in one (or more) among ~1,600 posts. This happens not only here, but in other sites as well. Everyone makes a few mistakes sometimes, but rarely is it deliberate (if ever). These cases of nitpicking were used to assassinate one’s credibility. This type of personal attack targets the messenger also.

Have we used any such tactics/arguments to discredit the work of the individuals above? Have we merely spoken about their affiliations and attitude towards certain technologies? Have we quoted them selectively to isolate evidence?

Treat others the same as you’d have them treat you.

The podcast was mostly politically correct, and is therefore useless to shed a light on Gnome/Novell/Goldberg actual doings and intentions. (not that you will get them to admit openly what they are doing anyway).

DeIcaza took the role of Brian Jones, the technical person. (technical person who concentrates on never answering the good questions)
JeffWaugh took the role of Doug Mahugh, the evangelist (communicates well, uses politics for cover)

Be aware that I’m a 25-year-old and should by no means be perceived as a spokesman or representative for anything.The dispute involved Jeff and myself and shouldn’t be generalised and seen as something beyond this.

In practice, the session didn’t have questions they had collected actually asked at all (people passed questions for them to ask Jeff). Instead, it was just some awkward silence with off-topic discussions and rambling. Jeff didn’t even go on the air until about 15 minutes after the start. As people have said in some places, this was unorganised. Oh, and don’t get me started about those stalkers from USENET sticking their personal insults in various places around the podcast. It’s the usual character assassination which they also do in Digg. I recognise these people easily.

I haven’t read the text of articles carefully, but I knew from the start that Bruce Byfield is somewhat of a friend of Jeff (they corresponded before). Some would try calling it a set-up (I don’t really believe this personally), but being silent would not have achieved much either.

This confirms what I thought about the Deicazaification of otherwise intelligent persons.

When it comes to non-XML stuff, there is a ton of things to say that he does not even mention. I hope this is just because he has a plane to take or something like that. I would hate to learn that this is just ignorance.

Let me just give a couple starting points.

The new document environment encompasses non-XML stuff such as BIFF11+ and BIFF12. This is not XML stuff, and it even contradicts ECMA 376 and Microsoft claims about moving to XML. Obviously, if we take BIFF11+ and BIFF12, these are two new file formats, this also contradicts Jody’s statement that “these are the same”.

As for “regular” undocumented binary pieces such as VBA macros, the file format itself is unchanged (and not part of Microsoft’s covenant not to sue btw), but it’s wrapped under a new container and, on the other hand, VBA macros now have explicit link attributes right within XML streams (GUID, codename, …) which did not exist at all in previous versions of the file format. Therefore, here again, Jody is proven wrong.