clarifying the gaim-vv record

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]. 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 and causes a rampage of ignorant users.

The OSNews article links to Mr. Lawler's blog, where his side of the argument is.^[2] He claims it is not an argument,^[3] 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. My subsequant conversation with Mr. Egan. 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. Mr. Laager is another gaim developer, who IMed me with concerns about the whole mess.