Re: There is no cabal

> I wasn't offered my own new
> wiki-thread though, maybe I didn't ask the right person...

What do you mean "offered my own new wiki-thread"?  You don't get
offered something on a wiki.  You go and start it yourself.


> I realise that you had not intended to make this much of an issue
> out it, or
> to trample on another (if aged) project.  As I see it, it's happened
> that
> way, because of choices people-in-power have made as to how to react
> to
> someone who disagrees with them.  And particularly to those people
> who are
> outside of the current magic-circle.

What sort of power are you ascribing to these unnamed "people-in-
power"?  There is no power.  There is no Perl Cabal who are allowed to
do things on a wiki, and others who are not.  Anyone can edit anything
on the wiki.  Even Elaine.  It is the very nature of open source.

xoa

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On Monday 28 April 2008 18:41:00 Andy Lester wrote:
>
> There is no Perl Cabal
>
There usually is one, somewhere, if you look closely enough...

;-)

I think we're getting a bit off-topic though.  This thread was about Elaine'
s
Timeline, and her right to continue her project as she sees fit, rather than
someone else to decide on behalf of the community that her project should be
arbitrarily side-lined.

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On Apr 28, 2008, at 11:49 AM, Richard Foley wrote:

> I think we're getting a bit off-topic though.  This thread was about
> Elaine's
> Timeline, and her right to continue her project as she sees fit,
> rather than
> someone else to decide on behalf of the community that her project
> should be
> arbitrarily side-lined.


Elaine has an absolute right to continue her project as she sees fit.

No one could stop her from continuing her project if they wanted to.

No one is advocating removing her page.

No one has decided that her project should be arbitrarily side-lined.
If people choose to work on Elaine's project, then no one can stop
them.  Who would be so foolish or mean-spirited as to even try?

Starting a new, complementary (or competing) project to an existing
project is the very core of open source.

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On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 06:49:16PM +0200, Richard Foley wrote:
> On Monday 28 April 2008 18:41:00 Andy Lester wrote: 
> There usually is one, somewhere, if you look closely enough...
>

Only one?

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On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:41:00 -0500, Andy Lester wrote:
> What sort of power are you ascribing to these unnamed "people-in-
> power"?  There is no power.  There is no Perl Cabal  [...]

Oh, I beg to differ:

http://web.archive.org/web/20030716....com/lwall.html

:-)

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