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

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Thu Nov 10 15:57:56 PST 2005


On 11/10/2005 3:49 PM, Richard Moore wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 06:42:33PM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
> 
>>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.
> 
> Here's an example from earlier in the thread:
> 
> http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS3533242304.html
> 
> There are 3 names there.

Unless I'm mistaken, freedesktop.org isn't mentioned at all in that
article.  It's hard to misrepresent something when you don't mention it,
mmm?

	-brian




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