Comments on: TechBytes Episode 9: The Potentially Permanent Return of ThistleWeb

By: Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Dr. Roy Schestowitz — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:30:22 +0000

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.

By: saulgoode

saulgoode — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 07:34:55 +0000

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?