* Frank Cox <theatre@xxxxxxxxxxx> [20080824 21:42]: > On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:27:47 -0800 > Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > the full details > > can not be publicly disclosed instantaneously due to legal constraint > > This I simply don't understand. You do not need to understand, you just need to accept that this is the case. You may not like it (I don't particularly, but I realise the need for it), and you are within your right to voice your opinion. > If I am minding my own business and walking to the post office, and Joe Bloggs > walks up to me and punches me in the nose, I think I'm perfectly within my > rights to tell my friends and everyone else who wants to listen that Joe Bloggs > punched me in the nose. On the other hand, if I want to date Joe Bloggs' sister > I might tell people who ask me how I got a broken nose that I can't tell them. > But that's not "legal reasons", that's simply my personal choice to keep quiet > about it. You are describing two situations that are worlds apart. Comparing apples and oranges is not going to all of a sudden make you right. > Why should this be any different? Either something happened, or it did not. > If something happened, then the facts will either be released, or > not. In due time. Patience is a virtue and all that. In another post, Paul Frields pointed at a thread that explains the situation. > I don't see how vague, unspecified "legal reasons" could stop anyone > from discussing their involvement unless there is some contractual > issue involved, in which case the person(s) involved in enforcing > the contract are the ones who are in a position to provide the > facts. "I realize that this contract says that I'm not supposed to > talk about this, but in these circumstances perhaps we should make > an exception." "I agree. Here is a written waiver of the relevant > contact provisions." Problem solved. If you are volunteering to spend all the years in jail on behalf of those involved in the investigation that you are asking to interfere in a criminal investigation - I guess that some sort of deal can be accommodated with the courts. (And yes, I'm taking the piss now as the discussion is beyond farcical.) Facts - not petty demands or ludicrous speculation - will emerge in due time and when appropriate, and I still think that The Cuckoo's Egg should be a mandatory read before people start demanding instant disclosure. /Anders -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
