[Foundation-l] Future board meeting (5-7 april 08)

[Thomas Dalton]

On 11/04/2008, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi,
>  Why ? Ask yourself, what good does disparagement do.

Depending on your definition, simply informing the public of
wrongdoing could be considered disparagement, and that certainly can
do some good.

> What is the point of
>  continuously attacking people, invading in their private life.

Please stop constructing straw men.

> If you have
>  something serious to say and you make your point fine. Writing in a
>  slanderous way is not the done thing and when people who are or were part of
>  an organisation do this, the damage to the people left behind in an
>  organisation is much greater then when an average Joe says or writes
>  something nasty.

That's all a matter of definition. Slander is obviously unacceptable
(and illegal). Disparagement is a much broader term.

>  Also the value of such an agreement is limited. When you have serious things
>  to say and go about it in a sensible way there is little that will stop you
>  saying it. It is not that efficient a gag.

And since, as others have said, it almost certainly wouldn't be
enforced, there really is no point.