Cochin, Exocore, Atul, Linux-India and Everything

[Raju Mathur <raju@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Small request:

The next time you start bashing Atul for not helping you get your web
page/mailing list/DNS entry/whatever onto the right place, please
remember the Linux-Delhi maxim: if you feel you can do it better, do
it and we'll support and respect you.  It's too easy to point fingers
and say, `He's making a mess of things, she's making a mess of things'
without any proactive content.

Please feel free to host the Linux-India site and lists on a fast
server in India with no downtime and 100% technical support.  If you
can't, please don't start throwing mud at Atul, the person who is
providing this service to all of us at no cost, in public.  Sure, all
of us have issues with everyone else.  I don't like Nikhil's face.  I
don't like Suresh's .signature.  I don't like Atul's method of playing
the guitar.  People don't like my Perl coding style.  That's no reason
for me to start calling any of them names on a public mailing list,
and worse, pulling their company and/or friends and supporters into
the mire.

No one objects to a rational debate on methods and policies.  No one
wants to see a completely pointless flamewar on the list either.  Has
the past month or two of flames on LIG achieved anything?  Zero.
Zilch.  Shunya.

If you have a point to make, please make it without bringing
personalities and/or organisations into it.  If the webmaster makes a
decision, it's a collective decision.  Atul, Exocore and Exocore
employees have nothing to do with that decision.

To summarise:

I do not support Atul Chitnis, Exocore or any Exocore employee as an
individual or a corporation.  If I am friends or at loggerheads with
any of them it is my personal business.  If you have anything to say
about any of them on a personal basis, please say it in private mail,
not on the list.

I /do/ support each and every decision that Atul Chitnis in his role
as Webmaster of Linux-India has made, because it is partly my
decision.  I thank Exocore for providing vital support infrastructure
to Linux-India.  I believe that LI and Linux in India have benefited
vastly from Exocore and Atul's inputs, and they are deserving of our
gratitude.

Regards,

-- Raju
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Raju Mathur          raju@xxxxxxxxxxxxx           http://kandalaya.org/