Re: [Fwd: Re: abiword on savannah]


Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: abiword on savannah]
From: Rui Miguel Seabra (rms@multicert.com)
Date: Fri Nov 23 2001 - 15:59:20 CST


On Fri, 2001-11-23 at 11:40, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> First, Hub was trying to "do his laundy in private" and not in public.
> Please respect that in the future.

Unless told otherwise, and duely ciphered, any mail is public, imnsho.

> Now, secondly, recognize that not everyone here agrees with your
> position on SF.Net and Savannah. This is fine because people are
> entitled to their own opinions. I'm not saying that you are right or
> wrong in your beliefs, and I've purposefully not stated my opinion here.

I don't have to admit, I know.

> Now, you're being stubborn and not uploading your RPMs to SF.Net. That's
> fine. Hub's being stubborn and not accepting your RPMs on Savannah. That
> is *also fine*. You both are sticking to your convictions, and are to be
> commended (and slapped) for it. What Hub is doing is not blackmail - at
> least not any more than your refusal to upload your RPMs to SF.Net is
> blackmail (in a percieved effort to move us to Savannah).

It is not a perceived way to move us into Savannah. I _explicitly_ said
that in the mail I sent with the urls.

> Put your RPMs on some neutral site or we'll simply not use them. Grow
> up. Bumping heads will get you nowhere fast.

I can't. My home is also taxed on transmission and it's only 64kbps.
Work won't allow it.

wget -m http://freesoftware.fsf.org/download/abiword/

cd freesoftware.fsf.org/download/abiword

ftp, scp rsync, to wherever.

It's as simple as that, and it is why I can't understand such an
attitude.

Hugs, rms

-- 
+ No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown
+ Whatever you do will be insignificant,
| but it is very important that you do it -- Ghandi
+ So let's do it...?




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