Fedora Extras is extra

William M. Quarles quarlewm at jmu.edu
Mon Nov 29 20:33:46 UTC 2004


Since you claim to be unsubscribing from the list, I thought I'd send 
you this off-list as well, because you coming off as a word or phrase 
that I'll refrain from saying since it will only add to the flames.

Michael Schwendt wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 09:41:32 +0100 (CET), Dag Wieers wrote:
> 
>>Michael, don't start another war.
> 
> I'm not aware of earlier ones started by me.

I don't think he said that you did.  He just pointed out that previous 
wars happened and not another one was needed, and implied that you were 
a very active participant in one or more of these wars.

>>I fixed the package because you were 
>>right and I did not answer your mail because it was another highly 
>>explosive one.
> 
> Haha. Apparently, you opened it and read it and no explosives were set
> off.

Funny.  Not.

> It would have been a nice move to reply to it. No need to comment
> on the certainly harmless text in it.

If he didn't comment on it then what kind of reply would you expect?  An 
empty one?  This is pretty absurd.

> I didn't even ask why you copied the package.

Like I said on the list (but possibly you did not receive it):  who 
cares?  It's Free software.

And as I also said on that message:

(and here is your text)
 > Not fedora.us. Why should the active contributors at fedora.us see
 > existing 3rd party repositories as competition and try to provide the
 > same packages?

Hello, we aren't suggesting competition here!  What have we been saying 
guys?  "COOPERATION!  COORDINATION!"

----
Peace,
William




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