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12/31/2005: "I've been banned from Open Source (Initiative)"

Hours after I posted my last missive about esr's apparent plagerism, (and emailed it to several people, including the Board of Directors at OSI, I got this little love note from Russell Nelson, one of the board members at OSI:



I'm just a volunteer postmaster for the Open Source Initiative.
Nobody pays me to deal with cranks and loons. Thus, in the
traditional "I'm not gonna put up with this bullshit" free software
philosophy, I'm going to add (ME) to my blocking list at
the SMTP level. This will mean that (I) won't be able to
send mail to me, or to the Open Source Initiative.

I'm taking this action irrevokably, unilaterally and petulantly. OSI
can go find itself another postmaster if it REALLY REALLY wants to
receive Jim Thompson's insane ranting via email. Of course,
individual OSI board members are always free to visit Jim's blog at
http://www.littleworks.com, http://www.smallminds.com/ or
http://www.smalldicks.com/ or something like that.

Jim, you need to take up another hobby other than Raymond-baiting.


Well played Russell! You took your toys and went home *and* made references to the size of my manhood. The *only* other guy that ever had this done to me was Don Stalter, the 2nd CEO at Vivato, and I don't miss him either. Moreover, Stalter was removed from his role at Vivato after a mere 16 months. Only eight months later, Vivato closed its doors.

I've also never heard that "I'm not going to put up with this bullshit" as part of the Free Software philosophy.