[ncdnhc-discuss] ISOC to bid on .org

[Dave Crocker]

At 05:52 PM 6/7/2002 -0400, Jonathan Weinberg wrote:
>At 10:10 AM 6/7/2002 -0700, Dave Crocker wrote:
>>At 12:35 PM 6/7/2002 -0400, James Love wrote:
>>>: Jamie, you are paid for yourinvolvement in ICANN.
>>>      Well, not by any outside funder.
>>
>>Oh?  You mean you are spending your personal money?
>>No.  I didn't think so.
>>You are paid by your job.  Your job gets it money from others.
>
>         Of all the grounds on which one might attack Jamie, this is 
> plainly the silliest.


As seems to be required in this forum, you have missed the point.

Jamie and others make a habit of attacking Kent's involvement, although 
that involvement in this forum has been -- and continues to be -- 100% 
voluntary, using his personal time and personal funds.

That is not true for most or any of the attackers.

It does not matter how well or poorly paid those attackers are.  What 
matters is that they are attacking a volunteer, yet their participation is 
part of their work.  Because they do this as part of their job, OF COURSE 
they have a financial stake.

And yet such folk make a point of working to discount the contributions of 
those they disagree with, if such folk have any financial association at 
all with ICANN topics, even though they do too!

You want silly?

Well, consider the silliness of THAT attack.

d/

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