Conduct (Re: World Domination?)

[Philippe Landau]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>> The large part of the "nonsense" in my email
>> consists of verbatim copies from the official Ubuntu.com homepage.
> No, the "nonsense" in your email consists of conspiracy theories,
> nonspecific rants, and vague accusations of bias against you.
Ah.

>>> so either speak openly, or I will spend my time more productively.  
>>> This is my choice.  Ubuntu is not out to get you.  
>>> No one is suppressing you or excluding you.
>> That depends on whether you act on your implicit threat 
>> to unsubscribe/ban me.
> Believe me, I have much more productive things to do than police 
> the mailing lists; that certainly isn't what I meant 
> by spending my time more productively.
> If you were to push someone to that point, I think you would be 
> the first person to have caused enough of a disruption to justify it.  
> Are you pursuing that dubious honor?
I don't mind either way. It's not a personal thing for me.

>>> Ubuntu does have rules, however, and you (like everyone else) 
>>> are expected to abide by them when participating in Ubuntu discussion 
>>> forums.  Most relevant in this instance is the Code of Conduct:
>>> http://www.ubuntulinux.org/community/conduct
>> What part exactly am i violating according to you ?
> Start with "Be considerate" and "Be respectful".
> Both terms are adequately defined by the dictionaries available in Ubuntu,
> if their meaning is not clear.
More or less what we did: i respect your opinion and you respect mine.

>>> This isn't persecution; it's civilization.  
I'm not too keen on having a software company define for me
what is civilisation. A little humility would be much appreciated.
Canonical/Ubuntu is not the beginning and the end.

>>> Can you behave according to the code, or not?
>> I do my best to follow standard Netiquette. 
>> If Canonical/Ubuntu has a policy of disallowing criticism 
>> on their public mailinglists, this is their choice of course.
> There is no such policy, and no amount of FUD will make it so.
Excellent.
So now we could start talking about the content :-)

Kind regards     Philippe