The original email (http://sluggish.uni.cc/david_hart_siai_rant.txt http://sluggish.uni.cc/david_hart_siai_rant.txt) makes it clear that they had good reason fo

The original email (http://sluggish.uni.cc/david_hart_siai_rant.txt http://sluggish.uni.cc/david_hart_siai_rant.txt) makes it clear that they had good reason for firing him. He presents himself in a very immature and egotistical fashion, and the email to google was impulsive and potentially damaging to the organization's image. Characterizing the expulsion as an "excommunication," as if there was some kind of religious basis to it, is quite sensationalist. From the bottom of that email: The funding request you sent to the Google guys was inappropriate for a couple of reasons: 1) Google funded OpenCog on the basis of the Google Summer of Code only. For-profit organizations like Google do not regularly fund outside projects besides special programs like Summer of Code. If they want that sort of association, they will buy out the entity. 2) You CCd a number of SIAI people in your email, making it very much seem that we had made the decision to approach them as a group, when no such thing ever happened. This ruins our brand by association it with requests for handouts from for-profit companies. We value our relationship with Google very much -- by jumping in with your unplanned email, you make us look like beggars. . The correct way of making your request would have been to send separate requests to SIAI and Google as a personal request, not using SIAI's name to make a request to Google without clearing it with us.