Bruce Perens rejected from license-proliferation committee.

[Bruce Perens]

Russell Nelson wrote:

>Yes, because you're making pro-hominem arguments for your inclusion.
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If you don't believe in someone's qualification, you should state why
you feel your team is better. At no time should this include statements
like "this says something unfortunate about you". Ad-hominem is simply
never justified for someone in your role.

>Didn't the lid on Pandora's box CLEARLY say "Do not open for eternity" when you opened it?
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I guess this is some sort of allusion to a skeleton in the closet. If I
had any such things they have already been discussed on Slashdot by
300,000 people, and thus rendered moot.

>On the other hand, now that you've whined about
>it publicly, you've made it impossible for us to even begin to start
>to possibly maybe consider adding you to the committee, much less
>admitting error in not doing so initially.
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Compare OSI to W3C, which bent its own rules to admit me after a public
complaint. They dared to think that they might have made a mistake and
it might be worth fixing. And I got your own executive director on
board, too. And the world is better for it, especially where Open Source
is concerned.

Russ, do you never want that to happen again? Right now you are
providing an excellent example to Open Source's enemies that when we
complain, it's fine to just clam up and refuse to move.

    Bruce