Multilib Middle-Ground

[max bianco]

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 2:14 PM, max bianco <maximilianbianco at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  What an intelligent stance to take, this is an open project isn't it?
>
> it was a bit tongue and cheek and very much a hollow threat meant to
> give Les pause to consider what it means to be a constructive
> participant in a dialog by providing an illustration as to where being
> destructive can lead.  If I actually did that, would I still have the
> respect of others in the community when I myself put a proposal
> forward... extremely doubtful. I haven't work as hard as I have to
> move things forward just to burn through my good will to harass one
> poisonous person who is a drag on the process.  But just thinking
> about doing it is a rush I haven't felt since that one year when I
> found my Christmas presents early and then unwrapped and rewrapped
> them to see what I got.   But I don't really have the luxury to be
> selfish any longer, wallowing around in my own desires to 'win'
> pointless arguments with people.
> What Fedora as a community needs to achieve is too important for me to
> indulge in petty bickering. But I tell you honestly... Les's inability
> to answer my question straight forwardly brings out my desire to
> retort with passionate displeasure, as I'm somewhat sure it does to
> other people.
>
> But technically speaking, there's nothing stopping me from being as
> irrational as other people on this thread have been, nor is there
> anything stopping other people from ignoring me once I decide to go
> around making a delibrate effort to be unconstructive. Openness does
> not automatically make participants in the process intelligent,
> rational, constructive nor honest.  These are all personal
> characteristics which we as individuals must choose to bring to a
> discussion.   Nor does openness mandate that everyone be forced to
> listen to everyone else with equal weight. We each individually have
> to continually earn the respect of others in an open process or else
> we lose our seat at the table. Les is on the verge of losing his
> unless he makes and effort to rein in the vitriol and hyperbole and
> find something constructive to say.
>

Just checking. : )

Max