Last Tango in fdo (was Re: Tango, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Desktop)

[Adam Jackson]

On Thursday 10 November 2005 18:20, Richard Moore wrote:
> Surely you agree that having the purpose of freedesktop.org misunderstood
> cannot help its aims. From the website:
>
> 'Unlike a standards organization, freedesktop.org is a "collaboration
> zone" where ideas and code are tossed around, and de facto
> specifications are encouraged.'
>
> Except, that's not how it is often represented. This in turn harms its
> use as a forum for collaborating.

So some people can't read and/or are deliberately misrepresenting fd.o.  Find 
those people and beat them severely.

Which is a bit of an empty directive without actual names of people to go 
after and brutalize.  So, I must ask the crowd: who out there is actually 
saying freedesktop.org is a formal standardization body capable of enforcing 
the adoption of technologies or components?

If you can't answer that question with the name of a particular individual, 
then you may now stop squawking about "misrepresentation", because you've 
disproved your own assertion.

- ajax
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