There are a couple of people that, although discussion remained civil, it seems I cannot afford to engage any longer. Because other people perceive it as a shouting match.
I do think it is the case that the discussion became repetitious. On Sat, Mar 16, 2019, 11:47 Richard Fontana <richard.font...@opensource.org> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 5:21 PM Rick Moen <r...@linuxmafia.com> wrote: > > > > I cannot help wondering if Luis is seeking to solve the wrong problem. > > (As co-author of an essay on seeking help on technical problems, 'How to > > Ask Questions the Smart Way', I've seen a good bit of that.) If the > > main problem is 'Sometimes, net.random participants on OSI mailing lists > > are misunderstood to be somehow reflecting the position of OSI', then > > perhaps the appropriate remedy is a stronger social convention for > > official OSI representatives to always identify themselves as such and > > state when they are speaking officially. > > I've tried recently (I didn't do this before the past year) to use my > opensource.org email address to signal this. > > > You could also alter the Mailman listinfo pages and new-subscriber text > > for license-review and license-discuss to stress these being public > > mailing lists open to any member of the public willing to abide by the > > code of conduct, and should NOT be assumed to speak for OSI unless so > > indicated. However, to be rather blunt, I believe the recently > > disgruntled commenters are entirely aware of that fact, and, if they are > > not merely attempting passive-aggressive kickback against License > > Committee decisions they didn't like, are not easily distinguished from > > that interpretation. > > I suspect so as well. > > Richard > > > > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > License-discuss mailing list > License-discuss@lists.opensource.org > > http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org >
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