Comment by ATsch
6 years ago
This seems kind of silly to me because:
1. Does the same thing not also apply to the blog post he authored, which contains the exact same points?
2. Is a talk where you get a big stage to preach your opinion from and take two questions at the end really the best way to do this? As opposed to say, a panel discussion or similar.
He wants to have a conversation where he can use shorthand that won't be turned against him later through decontextualized misunderstanding. This doesn't sound unreasonable to me at all. In fact, it's something we take advantage of frequently as individuals.
If I were a high-profile person recorded for everything I did I'd almost certainly be raked over the coals for "Just kill all the apaches. They are fucking useless." when talking to a friend as we hacked on apache running in forked mode and spawned a million processes that can't respond. This is why I use nginx now. Much safer.