[Mono-list] Mono and the community

[Pokey the Penguin]

On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 15:47, Joe Mozelesky wrote:
> I'm not sure I understand.  I thought Mono was an 'open source'
> community project, that happened to have a corporate sponsor.  Why would
> there be any confidential information?  Shouldn't everything be
> disclosed to the community?

There are several Open Source/Free Software projects with private
mailing lists and IRC channels including the Linux kernel, the Debian
project and many of the larger GNOME sub-projects. Mono isn't an
exception.

Mostly they're used to discuss 'public relations' with individual users
which would be impolite or encourage rumours if posted on a public list.
The fact that there are several external contributors on these lists
acts as a check that nothing too nefarious will be discussed on them.

There is no conspiracy! :-)

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Pokey the Penguin <pokey@linuxmail.org>