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Re: Why we have situated software (Re: A sad farewell)

Pete Resnick <resnick@episteme.net> Fri, 06 November 2020 19:31 UTC

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From: Pete Resnick <resnick@episteme.net>
To: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
Cc: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>, "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>, IETF <ietf@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: Why we have situated software (Re: A sad farewell)
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2020 13:31:23 -0600
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On 6 Nov 2020, at 13:18, Carsten Bormann wrote:

> I can’t believe the discussion of a serious organizational and 
> social problem is degenerating into a discussion of technical issues 
> again.  I’ve changed the subject, but of course I can’t do that 
> retroactively for the other messages that are off-topic for the main 
> thread.

Yes, I apologize for contributing to that. Instead of simply responding 
to Larry by saying, "Please don't belittle Henrik's contribution and the 
organizational issue he brought up by making this about your tooling 
concerns", I went after his tooling concerns. The latter should've at 
the very least been taken a different thread or list, if not simply 
ignored.

pr
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