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Re: Communicating with Apple [was Re: Finlay Dobbie [Bad News]]

Jordan Hubbard wrote:
>
> Anyway, my point here is that Apple is made up of engineers, just like
> the ones on this mailing list, who'd love to be able to talk more freely
> about what they do, but that's just not possible. There are a lot of
> people here who've tried and have also gotten badly burned, their words
> quoted out of context or "creatively interpreted" to mean something
> entirely different. All it then takes is for one Apple person to read
> the bad article or review and then the URL starts getting passed all
> around the company with little "have you seen this?" notes attached.
> It's just human nature, like slowing down to look at a bad traffic
> accident. Naturally, at some point your boss (or your boss's boss,
> or ...) gets a copy and bingo, you've got another Apple engineer
> bitterly vowing to never say another thing in public again. Sad? Yes.
> Understandable? Also yes.

Another point to ponder is that Apple is a publicly traded company.
Statements of "product direction" by Apple employees can be construed
as "forward-looking statements" and subject to scrutiny by the SEC and
other legal authorities. Like it or not, companies play in a completely
different space than open source projects.

Railing against the Apple employees who are doing their best to make
things better is not likely to be productive, and there are SOME problems
they (you, Jordan) will never be able to solve. Relations with those who
are too young to enter into contracts is likely to remain one of those
problems.

--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
email@hidden http://softweyr.com/
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