Today I wake up to find that Mr. Peter (Bleeter) Lawler’s dissatisfaction with Mr. Sean Egan’s decisions as they relate to bringing Gaim some voice/video(-vv) functionality has been taken public. I should not be surprised, but I rather was. The first I knew of it was this OSNews blurb[1]/sup/a. That in and of itself is likely, even had I not made the mistake of posting to the list about it, enough to ensure this reaches slashdot/a and causes a rampage of ignorant users.
The OSNews article links to Mr. Lawler’s blog, where his side of the argument is.[2]/a/sup He claims it is not an argument,[3]/a/sup but his consistent tone throughout has been confrontational.
In one respect he was wrong, I did mean that he ought not to be insulting me in exactly the way he took it at the time. I was annoyed and upset, and I do not take well to his slander of me. But then, I also doubt he would have taken that tone had we been face to face.
But that aside, let the record, as I have seen it these last two days, stand for itself.
My conversation with Mr. Lawler/a. My subsequant conversation with Mr. Egan/a. This second conversation happened several hours later, and I had calmed down considerably from the fustration I felt and unfortunately expressed with Mr. Lawler. My conversation with Mr. Richard (rlaager) Laager/a. Mr. Laager is another gaim developer, who IMed me with concerns about the whole mess.
- Ms. Eugenia Loli-Queru. “Gaim Kills Off Gaim-VV Webcam Support?” OS News 2005-11-11. http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=12615/li
- Mr. Peter (Bleeter) Lawler. “Death of gaim-vv” http://www.livejournal.com/users/bleeter/ 2005-11-11. http://www.livejournal.com/users/bleeter/12357.html/li
- Mr. Peter (Bleeter) Lawler. “gaim-vv death part trois” http://www.livejournal.com/users/bleeter/ 2005-11-11. http://www.livejournal.com/users/bleeter/12357.html/li /ol/font