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Originally Posted by jæd

I realise you are disappointed with the Illiad, but is this attitude really necessary...?

Attitude? What attitude? Let me get this straight: I do not endorse physical violence against iRex employees, or against other living beings in general. The quoted sentence is a particular kind of humorous figure, whose correct name elapses me.

The humor-free version of my proposal would be:
It would be good if someone from this community, at best one of the programmers, would show up there and start a face-to-face conversation with some iRex employee. Chances are even one we know is there, like karel or Angel. That could give us some insight on future plans, especially the Iliad's future, and some statement on the open software issues, because "just don't reply" is hard in a spoken discussion. It would also be interesting to tell them about the frustration and negative mouth-propaganda they cause by their current activities and non-activities. Under optimal circumstances, it might even be possible to convince somebody that supporting user developments instead of keeping them down might be good for iRex in the long run.

But, frankly, I'd be bored to death by reading that statement. And other people with a twisted humor like my one will understand what I mean.

(Read Pratchett, I love his repeated usage of this figure. Oh, and while we're at it: But that sort of thing was wasted on Detritus. He treated humour as some human aberration which had to be overcome by talking slowly and patiently. From "Thud!"; no pun intended; proper placement of "scnr", humor bracketing and smileys to be envisaged by the reader)