Stop whininig / be friendly (Re: Harald for president)

[Martix]

I agree, I always got kind responses from Sean when I wrote him.

Infrastructure topic is only exception, but you said he is going to 
write response, better later than never. :-)


Dne 20.5.2012 13:22, Harald Welte napsal(a):
> Chris,
>
> On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 11:08:00AM +0200, Christoph Pulster wrote:
>> A big THANKS to Harald for all his effords to keep Openmoko project
>> online ! - what a pity Sean did not care about his baby anymore.
> Please refrain from further bashing about Sean here on this list.  This
> is neither helpful not fair.
>
> I think there are few people who understand the amount of trouble,
> stress and personal hardship that Sean went thorough in the Openmoko
> hay days.  Sean was the one who broguht all of us together, and who
> enabled us to try to build something that we had all only been able to
> dream about before: A truly open/free phone.
>
> The fact that it has not been overly successful (commercially,
> technically, ...) does nothing to the fact that we would have never
> tried all of that with Sean.
>
> There have undoubtedly been many difficult times for all of us involved.
> People like Werenr, Wolfgang or me had an easy way out:  While we had
> lots of say inside the project and company, we waere freelancers that
> got paid and who could leave any time.   Sean had started the company
> and he never had a chance to simply walk away.
>
> So I would really like to ask you (and others on this list) to stop
> seeng Sean as the enemy.  The large companies out there making billions
> of $currency every quarter selling locked-down, proprietary phones are
> the enemy.   You cannot blame somebody for trying to change that,
> failing to do so and then at some point deliberately not reading the old
> mailing lists as you have to focus on some completely different projects
> and products by now.  After all, he has been paying thousands of dollars
> of server hosting in the years after Openmoko Inc. had  discontinued the
> phones.
>
> Regarding your complaints about distributors not receiving the best
> treatment that you had liked:  We were a very small team trying to do
> the impossible in many different areas, on an incredibly tight budget.
>
> Everyone had to take shortcuts, and everyone was overworked.  I'm sorry
> that this left some discomfort with you, but distributors/partners were
> not the only thing that had to be taken care of...
>
> What you're doing now with your bitching is just creating bitterness on
> all sides, and honestly, it is not going to help at all.
>
> Regards,
> 	Harald