On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 00:35 +0000, George Prowse wrote: > Ferris McCormick wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:30:32 -0500 > > Steev Klimaszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > >> <snip> > >> > >>>> Personally I understand why flameeyes took that to bugzilla; how else > >>>> could he say he'd gone thru the appropriate channels? Devrel (a > >>>> group, not an individual) weren't set up to respond quickly as others > >>>> have informed us all. > >>>> > >>> Case in point: you need to distinguish between flameeyes leaving (again) > >>> as a publicity stunt because his attempt to blackmail devrel failed and > >>> flameeyes' stated reason for leaving... > >>> > >>> > >> <snip> > >> > >> It was an ultimatum. He goes or I go, it was not blackmail. FFS, can > >> we please stop calling it blackmail? > >> > > > > As I recall, flameeyes made the statement to kloeri, and kloeri called > > it blackmail. Whatever you call it, in business, issuing such an > > ultimatum is one of the quickest ways to become unemployed. > So you'd rather let one of the best employees go rather than chastise a > worker who is leaving soon? Thats just cutting off your nose to spite > your face. >
You misunderstand. The analogy is that I walk into my boss's office and say "Fire Joe or I'm gone", in which case I can expect to be gone one way or the other. > It's good to see it has only taken 3 or is it 4 or 5 devs to leave > before anyone thinks about doing something. > > George -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc)
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