[clue] [OT] Comment about contentious subjects

Maxwell Spangler maxlists at maxwellspangler.com
Tue Feb 8 22:04:46 MST 2011


On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 13:15 -0700, YES NOPE9 wrote:
> I see that there is a natural tendency to privatize and possibly avoid
> contentious subjects.  I believe everyone in the CLUE community is
> better served by politely publicizing all the facts of an issue.  One
> of the basic tenets of FLOSS is that data should be free.  This allows
> considered and careful reflection.  I invite everyone to share their
> desires , beefs and confusion about this group. I feel it has a great
> future.

I think it will be better for the people involved in the leadership of
CLUE to take management discussions to a private list.  By all means let
membership to that list be open to those who are interested in guiding
CLUE, but recognize that all the recent non-Linux discussion has
appeared to readers as a bunch of interpersonal drama.  It demonstrates
to us that this group is not healthy, has issues and scares us away as
all the traffic we see is *not linux*.


For those interested in more of this kind of drama, consider this
episode of This American Life.  I bet you'll find parallels with whats
going on just with less red suits.

"Act Three. Santa Fight Club.

A tale of two Santas. There's Tim Conaghan, a full-time professional
Santa with a big belly and a real flowing white beard. And there's Santa
Nick—he too has a belly and real white beard. But the story of Santa Tim
and Santa Nick is not like most uplifting Christmas parables. Instead,
it's about two men, very much alike, who came to lead rival factions in
a bitter Santa civil war, and came themselves to be arch enemies. Josh
Bearman reports on the political schism that's overtaken the Amalgamated
Order of Real Bearded Santas. (27 minutes)"

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/371/scenes-from-a-mall

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