I'm sure I'll have more to say about posts to this list from the last 24 hours or so, but I did want to respond to this.
Various people said:
So, please, both of you, get yourself some blogs and hash
it out away
from wikipedia servers, and away from community at large. We don't need it.
Rant over.
Thank you!
Hear, hear (to both of you)!
You are misunderstanding what's going on here. Jimmy Wales has been lying about me and my role in this project. This is a SERIOUS PROBLEM, and I frankly resent your implicit dismissal of my concerns.
This isn't "just more of the same"; I am *not* asking for the community's resolution on the issue of "who is founder." That really *would* be inane, but it isn't what I am doing. You would know this, by the way, if you had actually read my open letter to Jimmy Wales.
I am speaking out first time, publicly, by saying that Jimmy Wales has been lying about me in a way that is self-serving. If you don't care about that, that's your prerogative. You don't need to announce to the world that you don't care. There *are* a lot of people who *do* care. I'm speaking to *those* people.
Moreover, I assert that it is my right to raise hell not only on this list, but also on Jimmy Wales' user talk page--if this is really an open, transparent, democratic project devoted to free speech. If he wants to take responsibility, as he does, as sole founder of the project, to represent himself that way to the world, and in other respects speak on behalf of the project--which he does, whether you like it or not--then he ought to be held to a higher standard than most.
If you don't like my message, that's fine, but do not try to deny my right to get it out there.
--Larry