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From: Christian Faulhammer <opfer@g.o>
To: gentoo-nfp@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-nfp] Re: Daniel Robbins Controversy Unfairly Reported in GMN
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:50:25
Message-Id: 20080121075046.5839eccb@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-nfp] Daniel Robbins Controversy Unfairly Reported in GMN by James Laslavic
1 Hi,
2
3 James Laslavic <squarebottle-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@××××××××××××.org>:
4 > Was anybody else a bit disappointed to see that when the issue came
5 > up in the new GMN, it only linked to the posts of developers who were
6 > against the proposal? There was no attempt made at all to represent
7 > the other side.
8
9 As I wrote the Planet round-up, I will do the statement: I just
10 collected reactions of developers, it is only about Planet Gentoo.
11 Exactly one opinion is left out, because there was nothing substantial
12 in it, and that was the one of Fernando Pereda
13 <URL:http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/ferdy/2008/01/15/on_tool_boxes>,
14 which was not positive either.
15 If you point me to blog posts on Planet Gentoo that are in favour of
16 the offer, I gladly write a correction for the next issue.
17
18 > Whether or not this incontrovertible lapse in journalistic integrity
19 > was intentional, it's still quite upsetting to me. Part of what's
20 > been making so many people in the community upset has been the way
21 > that the people on the inside haven't really been communicating with
22 > them, and while I'm happy to see the return of a general newsletter
23 > to begin to fix all that, this kind of one-sided reporting isn't
24 > exactly what I was hoping for, to say the least.
25
26 The intention was NOT to write a balanced summary, but to sum-up
27 reactions, nothing more, nothing left.
28
29 V-Li
30
31 --
32 Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project
33 <URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode
34
35 <URL:http://www.faulhammer.org/>

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