[crackmonkey] JWZ GAR

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Eve Lyn Batey (eve at zork.net):

> Sorry, obviously, I wasn't clear enough.  I wasn't referring to his
> initials, as much as I was decrying slashdot's comments following the
> newsitem, which tangentially disintegrated into anti-semitism. 

Oh, my apologies.  I hadn't paid the least attention to the Slashdot
thread, and am just wading through it now.

Sad experience makes clear that any Slashdot post bearing on 
Middle-Eastern political/military matters will attract the
lunatic anti-semites and their flame-prone adversaries, immediately,
in a kind of ritualised warfare.  (Actually, it's probably always 
the same two guys.)

Anyhow, I've just come across Jamie's post to the Slashdot thread:

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Hi, jwz here (I'm not logging in because I think having to register just to
post to slashdot is ridiculous, so you'll just have to take my word for
it.) 

That article was a pretty sensationalistic spin on what I said
last night. 

The article begins: 

     But living under the same roof almost brought things to a
     boil last month, when Netscape considered severing all 
     financial ties with Mozilla.org, Sm at rt Reseller has learned. 
     Under the plan, Netscape would have spun Mozilla.org -- the 
     group charged with leading community development of
     its one-time browser -- into a non-profit organization. 

First of all, I didn't say this happened last month, nothing "boiled." 
This is something that has been being considered since january, 
before the outside world had ever heard the name "mozilla.org". It 
has never been given much priority, but it has been discussed on 
occasion. In particular, this has absolutely nothing to do with 
the AOL deal. 

Someone asked a question about whether mozilla.org would ever
spin off, and I said that it was possible, because such a thing 
had been discussed.  That's all. 

Second, ``severing all financial ties'' sure sounds like ``cutting 
off funding'' to me, which wouldn't be the point of this at all, 
and certainly wasn't even suggested in any of the conversations 
about this in the past. 

You may now return to your regularly scheduled name-calling and
pointless bickering. 

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Rick M.    violence.  Violence erodes the basis of Israeli democracy.  It must
           be condemned and isolated." -- Yitzhak Rabin, 4 Nov 95 (last speech)
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