[alicebot-archcomm] Re: [alicebot-general] RE: dialogue
John Foderaro
alicebot-archcomm@alice.sunlitsurf.com
Mon, 19 Aug 2002 22:58:02 -0700
>> From: "Christopher Fahey [askrom]" <askROM@graphpaper.com>
>> While you may have convinced a handful (not many) people that
>> the decision was not made fairly, you haven't yet convinced anyone that
>> the decision to freeze the foundation wasn't correct.
Please don't speak for me. I didn't even need any convincing that the freeze
vote was a bad idea. It was obvious to me. An organization is like a
complex living entity. You can't freeze a living man for a year and
unfreeze him a year later and get a living man back.
The decision to freeze the foundation by the board was a decision by the
board to kill the foundation. It was suicide. If the four members of
the board had any sense (common or business) they would have set about
to do their jobs and resolve the situation rather than run from it.
Instead they took the easy way out and killed the foundation.
You can't blame Wallace for trying to create a new instance of the
foundation so that work on AIML can continue on. Are we all supposed
to sit on our hands for a year until what's left of the old board
wakes up after a year slumber and revives the foundation? Will anyone
in the old board even remember about the foundation in a year?