Sven,
I got Richard’s message about ESUG and I asked for facts. It seems you didn't
read my full post…
I did read it, it was well written and I agree with what you said.
Thanks.
But you were too polite, you give him the benefit of the doubt.
No, I asked for proof. Too polite? Well, not all the comments from the
other side were polite, and I tried to help deescalate.
I don't think that I have to remind anyone of what ESUG means (now and in the
past) for the larger Smalltalk community. I just do not even want to make that
comparison, not even for the sake of the discussion.
As long as there are no facts on the table, I think there are more
people than just ESUG that have good reasons to be offended.
We've had and still have quite a few initiatives that promote Smalltalk
and where inidividuals or groups put lots of effort into. Be it blogs,
books, link collections, meta-sites or whatever. Overall there is much
more going on around Smalltalk than, say, ten years ago.
I wanted to give Richard a chance to give us facts to understand why he
thinks he has achieved more than others, and I think nobody benefits if
we just bash a person for his choice of words in a few postings. I
personally have no idea what he's up to and if he's working on something
spectacular. We haven't seen it yet, but he pre-announced a lot.
Joachim
