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Roy Bamford posted on Sat, 28 Jul 2012 17:51:47 +0100 as excerpted: |
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> You don't want to listen to Presidents too much. Look at other real |
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> life examples. |
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> Would you claim that the President of the Gentoo Foundation speaks for |
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> Gentoo? |
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If he were making claims of that nature, yes, barring information to the |
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contrary, I'd assume he had authority/authorization to do so, and would |
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definitely hold gentoo to a responsibility to either follow thru or |
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remove him for cause for making such claims without authorization to do |
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so (or at very minimum, to publicly repudiate the claims if they didn't |
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intend to follow thru). If none of that happened, I'd blame gentoo even |
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more than the spokesperson that made the claim, without public |
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repudiation. |
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You're right, they're PR people and as such, their claims must |
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(unfortunately) be taken with a grain of salt. But that doesn't |
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eliminate the responsibility of whatever organization to either follow |
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thru or repudiate, as it's the reputation and credibility of that |
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organization on the line if they don't. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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