In my opinion is your logic that is wrong or you don't understand what I'm talking about at all (or don't want to understand).
Countries around the world use the term terrorism to suit their interests. South African government branded opponents of Apartheid terrorists (with the support of the US by the way) and the Israeli government does the same with anybody that opposes injustices committed against palestinians.
And lastly lots of democracies and NGOs around the Western "democratic" world consider Israel's acts against palestinian population to be plain violations of human rights.
(I comment whenever I think I have something interesting to say, if it happens to be just a few times in a year, so it be... don't see anything wrong with that)
Sigh... the democratic world that didn't terror stamp Israel but Hezbollah seems to disagree.
Sigh... The democratic world of which you speak is the same one that considered Nelson Mandela a terrorist for opposing Apartheid
I'm no saying here that I support the killing of any civilians, but let's not be hypocrites here, Palestinian civilians are as civilians as Israeli ones, and the conflict is not as easily divided into good ones vs bad ones as some would like.
Then they'll also need to block the twitter accounts of the Israeli government & co. as many of the acts carried out by the Israeli army in Gaza and other territories against civilians are as worthy or more of being considered terrorism
The point I was trying to make is that it's not important whether it was a public announcement or not. It is quite clear from the posted email what their thoughts are on scala. The email talks about developers at Yammer and gives specficic reasons and examples. The point is made clear and loud.
Now they realise it might not be good for PR and try to "fix" the situation appealing to the fact that the email was not meant to be public which is both ineffective and unelegant.
PR bs summary: "I said scala sucks, but I only said it to that one person, I didn't mean everyone to know that I think scala sucks, so yes, we love scala (but in private we think it sucks)".
I don't really get what all the fuzz is about. I think this guy is losing the point or trying to excuse himself for what he thinks. You wrote your thoughts about scala, the email accidentally (or whatever) leaked and somebody referenced your thoughts. The point is not that you wrote those thoughts in private or whatever the point is that you wrote that java suits you better than scala. And that's got referenced. Nobody said Yammer publicly announces that scala doesn't suit them. Whether your thoughts were intended for the public or for just one person is irrelevant. What a politician says when his mic is on while he is thinking is off the air, and everyone accidentally hears it, is still true. The fact that it was not intended for everyone to hear doesn't automatically make it false.