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May 17, 2002

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Dan Gillmor frozen out of BPDG deliberations

Dan Gillmor of the San Jose Mercury News (who has written about BPDG before) was, like other journalists, prevented from subscribing to the BPDG mailing lists.

(M)eetings of CPTWG and its sub-groups are intended to provide for open and frank discussion of technical issues. Engineers and other participants should feel free to bring up ideas, however preliminary, without concern for having statements attributed to them or their companies in the press. This consideration carries more weight than the generally public nature of CPTWG meetings, as CPTWG (and by extension BPDG) is not a formal decision-making body.

Therefore under our established rules and practices, LMI is not to add any individual of the press to the BPDG-Tech reflector. Members of the press can, of course, feel free to directly approach anybody for the purposes of an interview on the subject of CPTWG and its sub-groups (or any other subject that they feel is relevant), and are encouraged to do so.

Gillmor is one of the most respected tech journalists in the nation.

Remember, you can sign up for the BPDG mailing lists (providing, of course, that you're not with the free press) and voice your objections as the group proceeds to neuter the technology industry, eliminate your fair-use freedoms, curtail innovation and outlaw free and open-source software.

Posted by Seth Schoen at 09:45 AM