<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 2:57 AM Werner LEMBERG <<a href="mailto:wl@gnu.org">wl@gnu.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
> 10. I’d like to express my support for the notion that Behdad’s<br>
> complaint is heard by a fair and impartial group of people with<br>
> authority to change how OFF operates.<br>
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+1<br>
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Note that I very much value the helpfulness of many people especially<br>
at Microsoft. In other words, this my support of Adam's and Behdad's<br>
concern is not a personal attack to anyone!</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks Werner for bringing up this point.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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).</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>b</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> The main thing is that<br>
the rules for the standard should not enable the domination of a<br>
single company.<br>
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Werner<br>
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