[CMake] Sebastian Barre's private flames

Filipe Sousa natros at gmail.com
Tue Mar 4 16:06:54 EST 2008


Private mails should remain private.

Brandon Van Every wrote:
> Ok, I think it's time to call the private behavior of Kitware employee
> Sebastian Barre to the attention of the list.  I've repeatedly asked
> him to stop sending me private e-mail flames, and he simply will not
> do it.  This is the 3rd flame he's sent since being point blank asked
> to stop initiating private communication with me.  I brought this to
> Bill's attention; he said it's Sebastian's private e-mail and he
> didn't want to get involved.  I will be getting Google involved as he
> is in clear violation of their Terms Of Service.  It amazes me that
> any so-called "professional" feels they have the right to routinely
> engage in what every ISP out there defines as harassment, let alone
> one representing a company such as Kitware.
> 
> Meanwhile, let's get the CMake community involved.  Do you think it's
> acceptable for a Kitware employee to be harassing me in private e-mail
> over and over again?   The amount of ill will that Sebastian has
> singlehandedly created in the past few days is considerable.  Bill's
> unwillingness to do anything about Sebastian makes me think he pretty
> much agrees with Sebastian's opinions, and would like nothing better
> than to drive me out of here.  If this is how Kitware thinks it's
> acceptable to do business in an open source community, there is going
> to be a sea change in how the open source world deploys CMake's core
> technology.
> 
> Below is Sebastian's most recent missive:
> 
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Sebastien BARRE
> <sebastien.barre at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Below is the kind of missive that led me to ask Sebastian to stop
> sending me private e-mails.  I tolerated his diatribe and tried to get
> him to see my point of view.  When that proved impossible I asked him
> to stop contacting me privately, and he has refused.  In fact, he
> seems to delight in sending me more private flames, just to prove that
> I can't tell him what to do.
> 
> 
> Brandon Van Every

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