[cw-discuss] a messed up application entry

[Jeremy White]

Ouch.

Janusz, I think you are fundamentally not understanding our policy,
or if you do understand, you are choosing to use fairly abrasive language
to debate our decisions.

Regardless, it is also clear that Jeremy allowed his temper to
get the best of him here.  Deleting your entry altogether
was not appropriate, and I am sorry for that.  If you send me
the data privately, I will see that it is reinstated quickly.

Finally, in the hopes of clarifying this once and for all,
it is our official policy to try to avoid entering 'company' records.
This keeps the database smaller and more focused on the applications,
which is our preference.  We tend to enter 'company' records
only for companies that have multiple applications.

That allows us to streamline our process and get applications
entered more quickly.

I'm sorry that you didn't like that policy, and we're certainly
willing to discuss it further if you feel we've made a mistake.

However, I'd appreciate it if you could do so more cordially;
and, yes, I've asked Jeremy to do the same.

Cheers,

Jeremy

Jeremy Newman wrote:
> I have removed this app since you have found it so offensive to your
> delicate sensibilities.
> 
> Have a nice day. 
> 
> On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 16:53 +0200, Janusz S. Bień wrote:
>> On Thu, 28 Jun 2007  Jeremy Newman <jnewman at codeweavers.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm to blame here. I approved this app. I stand by my calls. 
>>>
>>> I don't enter every company out there. Most are one off entries, and I
>>> feel they belong in a "Unknown" or Shareware/Freeware group. This is not
>>> a historical DB, we are not trying to be a Wikipedia. We just want to
>>> let our users know what works and what does not.
>> So we have an application. Its producer is known, is still in
>> bussiness, the entry even contains a link to its WWW site (although in
>> the field "Homepage", not in "Company"). Despite this fact
>>
>> 1. you describe the producer to be "Unknown"
>> 2. you don't see any contradiction
>> 3. you consider your database to be well designed
>>
>> Have I correctly summarized your views?
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Janusz
>>
> 
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