I have no problem with the change that you made, and I said so in my initial reply.
My problem is the way that you characterized it. You can be more polite. For example, "I like the link you added, but I think that the (R) is not correct and so I removed it..." That is all I'm going to say about it for now. Regards, Dave Sent from my iPhone On Feb 2, 2013, at 9:41 PM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 9:33 PM, Pedro Giffuni <p...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> ----- Messaggio originale ----- >>> Da: Rob Weir >> ... >>>> >>>> So, if you are planning to revert someone elses change and it's really >>> urgent please >>>> take the time and write a polite message *before* reverting saying: >>>> >>>> "Hello Dave, I think this is a really bad idea, I will revert it for >>> now and we can discuss >>>> this issue with legal@." >>> >>> Actually, I did explain this in the BZ issue for this item, and I did >>> this **two weeks ago**: >>> >>> https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=121624 >> >> If this is going on for more than two weeks you could've >> waited some more minutes. > > Actually, no. Talking about the change was fine. But actually > putting this on the website, if my interpretation is correct, put us > in an immediate danger. > > What you may not be aware of, is that there is a company watching very > carefully, waiting for us to screw up with the trademark. The company > is the same one that runs several of the malware OpenOffice clone > sites. For example, when Oracle announced that they were getting out > of OpenOffice, this company immediately submitted a trademark > registration for OpenOffice. Not a month later, not a week later, but > the ***very next business day***. > > It took some special effort and legal work to get that application > rejected. I know about this. Others may not. But you can see the > full record of it in TESS. So the belief that you can get trademarks > wrong on the website for a 72 hour discussion is a dangerous form of > ignorance. > > Again, I removed this and I would do it again, without hesitation, in > similar circumstances. I should have your thanks, not your scorn, for > doing this. > > Regards, > > -Rob > >>>> These bullying in the lines of "I reverted it .. and I will do it >>> again" is NOT acceptable. >>> >>> I say again, I would do exactly the same thing in similar circumstances. >> >> You are starting to sound like Anders Breivik. >> >> Your attitude is recurrent and I don't really have time to tell you how to >> behave in a community, I will only say that issues like this push me to >> spend more time on my *other* favorite software project. >> >> Pedro.
