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Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 10:14:24 -0800
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From: "Kevin Duffey" <kduffey@inprise.com>
Subject: Re: An Apology
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>	I wanted to apologize to Kevin.  After following this thread
>further, it has become apparent to me that my assumptions about who kevin
>is were incorrect.  I never meant what I wrote to be a flaim, but my
>choice of language was based on the assumption that Kevin was familiar
>with Linux and the open source movement in general.  This is obviously not
>the case.
>	I expected Kevin to know things that I now know he had no real
>reason to know, and was annoyed by what I thought was someone advocating
>things that he should have known were false.  As my assumptions were bad,
>my reactions were ungrounded.  I am probably saying this in a very
>complicated manner, so I'll just say it plainly.
>	I'm sorry for being a little hot under the collar, and I hope that
>I didn't offend anyone, I hope that we're all still on good terms.
>	Btw, Kevin, if you're interested in learning more about open
>source, aside from Eric S. Raymond's papers which are published online
>(probably linked to from www.opensource.org, actual URL anyone?), the book
>open sources contains a lot of very good information.  I highly recommend
>it (I also recommend to to anyone in the free software/open source
>community, it's a good read).

Thank you. Very nice to see this group is indeed a mature group. No apology
is necessary, but accepted none the less. I once tried to run an app over
the internet..have it developed by many programmers all over the world,
through email mostly, and some IRC meetings. It is in NO way easy to keep
everyone happy and at peace. Everyone has their own ideas about things, and
trying to coordinate such a project as ALSA is in no way easy. Collars are
going to get hot at times, and I believe we should all learn that hey..life
is like this in general. I surely dont ditch my best friends because we are
pissed at one another. More so here..over the internet, I dont know anyone
face to face, and I doubt anyone is going to come fly out to where I live
and meet me at my house because I pissed them off. Possible..yes,
likely..no. :)

No anger out of me, Chris. I forgive easily...on most things. :)



Kevin Duffey
kduffey@inprise.com

