Hi Thierry,

I don't really know who you are, and I've never met you.   But given
your claims that I'm "spreading wrong and racist statements about
french universities"... etc., I guess I do now.  Many thanks for the
clarification.

 -- William

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 8:32 AM, Thierry <sage-googlesu...@lma.metelu.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 02:35:22PM -0400, William Stein wrote:
> [...]
>> I am flat out strongly against hosting the Sage wiki, trac, etc.,.
>> They should be properly hosted in the cloud, where anybody can be
>> added as admins,
>
> FUD
>
>> we can make global backups,
>
> FUD
>
>> move the machines to have a presence anywhere in the world (due to many
>> data centers all over),
>
> FUD
>
>> etc.
>
> FUD
>
>> I feel like I've been way too hesitant regarding expressing my
>> opinions about the Sage infrastructure for the last year.
>>
>>  -- William
>
>
> Following the "don't feed the troll" principle, i did not answer all your
> (and Dima's) previous attacks against myself and the people who currently
> work on the Sage infrastructure, but this is going too far. Some examples
> include:
>
> - spreading wrong and racist statements about french universities and how
>   they manage access to VMs [1]
> - suggesting that nobody was working on the migration while you know that
>   we are working to set things up correctly (e.g. remote backup system),
>   and considering that workers are at your disposal, this is extremly
>   patronizing [2]
> - maintaining the confusion between university hosting and the very bad
>   practices that led us to this situation [3] [4]
>
> If you and Dima deign to apologize and consider the people who work for
> Sage with some respect, perhaps might we start a constructive discussion
> on the benefits of having a collectively-managed decentralized
> University-hosted infrastructure for the Sage services.
>
> Ciao,
> Thierry
>
> [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mathematics.sage.devel/84915
> [2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mathematics.sage.devel/86960
> [3] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mathematics.sage.devel/86954
> [4] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mathematics.sage.devel/84894
>
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