Potential libel (was Re^3: Custom perl programming contract)

raymor in "Re^2: Custom perl programming contract" said:

When many others, including merlyn, have posted many times about problems they had because they failed to obtain an adequate contract for a Perl programming (or Perl book writing) project

Just for the record, I'm challenging the inclusion of my name in this statement. If you have evidence of the particular phrase you've seen here (or perhaps in some other public forum) that you think supports your statement, I'd like to see it. I do believe this statement to be false as far as including my name, however, and would request that you withdraw your claim for lack of evidence.

I don't suspect any malice here; perhaps just a misunderstanding. But in this area, my reputation is important.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
Be sure to read my standard disclaimer if this is a reply.

update: After reviewing private comments from raymor, I see that he was confused about a prior public dispute I had, thinking it was a contractual issue, when in fact it was an issue over an understanding that was not contractually related. Thus, his comments that led me to write the first part of this message were not intentionally incorrect. However, for the record, I'll leave this node as it stands, and declare the matter resolved to my satisfaction.

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Re: Potential libel (was Re^3: Custom perl programming contract) by raymor (Acolyte) on Feb 17, 2005 at 19:28 UTC
My apologies for including your name in my post. Your reputaion is obviously important to you and I could have just as easily pointed to any of dozens of other notes here about problems people have had contributing open source code or documentation or using open source code in professional Perl projects. As to the truth or falsity of my statement that you've had some concerns that perhaps could have been avoided with better contracts I thought that my reference to Perl book writing would be a clear enough hint that you and others who have been around a while would know what I was referring to, if they had the inclination to think about it. That situation happened 5 years ago now, though, and I was out of line to bring it up and open up old wounds. Obviously I don't know the details of your personal business dealings either, so I shouldn't have brought it up in this context. Rather than posting a link to an old thread that you might rather not have linked to, I'll just make the statement that the situation I was referring to was one in which merlyn appeared to get the short end. That is to say it wasn't a situation where merlyn took advantage of anyone else, but possibly the opposite. I'm sending you a link to the thread privately should you choose to post it.	[reply]

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Re: Potential libel (was Re^3: Custom perl programming contract)
by raymor (Acolyte) on Feb 17, 2005 at 19:28 UTC

My apologies for including your name in my post. Your reputaion is obviously important to you and I could have just as easily pointed to any of dozens of other notes here about problems people have had contributing open source code or documentation or using open source code in professional Perl projects.

As to the truth or falsity of my statement that you've had some concerns that perhaps could have been avoided with better contracts I thought that my reference to Perl book writing would be a clear enough hint that you and others who have been around a while would know what I was referring to, if they had the inclination to think about it. That situation happened 5 years ago now, though, and I was out of line to bring it up and open up old wounds.

Obviously I don't know the details of your personal business dealings either, so I shouldn't have brought it up in this context. Rather than posting a link to an old thread that you might rather not have linked to, I'll just make the statement that the situation I was referring to was one in which merlyn appeared to get the short end. That is to say it wasn't a situation where merlyn took advantage of anyone else, but possibly the opposite. I'm sending you a link to the thread privately should you choose to post it.

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