[Search-l] so much for the "embargo"

Michael Arrington editor at techcrunch.com
Mon Jan 7 07:19:15 UTC 2008


Ok, Jimmy, if you say Miguel Helft at  the NYT broke the embargo  
(he's cc'd), then I believe you and I apologize. Shame on the NYT for  
doing something I've never seen them do before - blow an embargo.

Mike


On Jan 6, 2008, at 11:16 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote:

> Michael Arrington wrote:
>> I guess the New York times got a different embargo that the rest of
>> the world. We all sat on this for days per your friend NDA Jimmy. You
>> lied to us.
>
> Excuse me, Michael?  I think you should apologize to the list for that
> remark, that's just unacceptable behavior.
>
> The New York Times jumped the embargo.  I have no idea why.  They were
> given the embargo very clearly the same as everyone else.  I already
> complained to them and we had to scramble tonight to open up 3  
> hours early.
>
> In the wiki world we have a saying "Assume Good Faith".  What it means
> is, when something goes wrong, probably the first thing to assume  
> should
> not be "You lied".  Jeez.
>
> Get some sleep my friend, you're grumpy.  :-)
>
> --Jimbo
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