[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: virtual/libudev

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Roy Bamford posted on Sat, 28 Jul 2012 17:51:47 +0100 as excerpted:

> You don't want to listen to Presidents too much.  Look at other real
> life examples.
> 
> Would you claim that the President of the Gentoo Foundation speaks for
> Gentoo?

If he were making claims of that nature, yes, barring information to the 
contrary, I'd assume he had authority/authorization to do so, and would 
definitely hold gentoo to a responsibility to either follow thru or 
remove him for cause for making such claims without authorization to do 
so (or at very minimum, to publicly repudiate the claims if they didn't 
intend to follow thru).  If none of that happened, I'd blame gentoo even 
more than the spokesperson that made the claim, without public 
repudiation.

You're right, they're PR people and as such, their claims must 
(unfortunately)  be taken with a grain of salt.  But that doesn't 
eliminate the responsibility of whatever organization to either follow 
thru or repudiate, as it's the reputation and credibility of that 
organization on the line if they don't.

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