2009/7/11 Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net:
If he didn't want public comments he would not have made the letter public; he might have chosen more private WMF channels.
Do you know that he sought legal advice before publishing the letter? If he didn't, then is may not have been an informed choice. If he's made a strategic mistake by publishing the letter and not keeping control of the PR then we shouldn't aggravate that unnecessarily.