[MPEG-OTSPEC] Proposal to discontinue the AdHoc Group

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 2:57 AM Werner LEMBERG <wl at gnu.org> wrote:

>
> > 10. I’d like to express my support for the notion that Behdad’s
> > complaint is heard by a fair and impartial group of people with
> > authority to change how OFF operates.
>
> +1
>
> Note that I very much value the helpfulness of many people especially
> at Microsoft.  In other words, this my support of Adam's and Behdad's
> concern is not a personal attack to anyone!


Thanks Werner for bringing up this point.

Let me put this out here for the record: of all the people in this
industry, pretty much all I'm talking about I used to call friends, and
have nothing *personal* against. It's just that I am not leaving this
industry before doing *all* I can to leave it better for the next
generation.

About Peter, I was intimidated by him in 2014... In 2016 I admired his
mastery at chairing meetings (not to invalidate my technical objections to
his chairing now). I expressed my admiration to him multiple times in
person. When he was not at Microsoft anymore, I *strongly* advised my
management at Facebook to hire him to continue editing OpenType, and also
to Google Fonts (assuming, naively now I see, that we can convince
Microsoft to "pass the torch" now that they didn't have resources for
OpenType anymore; just let *us* innovate for a while; you did for 20/30
years and thanks for your service).

Same goes to Greg. I never had *any* negative experience with him; and
since I started making my allegations public after begging Greg for over a
year to find a way for MS/OpenType to let me innovate in it, at least he
just stayed silent and stopped responding to me.

Vlad was different: he talked to me privately trying to shut me down while
publicly denying my voice. That's when I lost all my respect for him and
that's documented on this list.

Sairus: he was never involved in real *technical* discussions in OpenType,
which is fine, but he made actual "Dilbert manager"-level mistakes around
CFF2 and COLRv1. When in a manic state I called him having a "fragile ego"
on Twitter on June 21, instead of just letting that disappear in the
internetlands, he embarked on an institutional harassment of me first via a
private email CC'ed to several members of this community, then through Alan
Stearns as Adobe W3C to Facebook's W3C rep, then through Facebook
OpenSource office, then through Facebook HR, at which point I quit my job
at Facebook.

b



> The main thing is that
> the rules for the standard should not enable the domination of a
> single company.
>
>
>    Werner
>
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