> Does that mean you intend for people to take your comments as representing the position of the Octave project on the subjects you comment on here? In my case

> Does that mean you intend for people to take your comments as representing the position of the Octave project on the subjects you comment on here? In my case, yes. I act here as an ambassador for Octave and the GNU project. If I were being too much of a jerk, that could reflect badly on the Octave community. Since I do not want Octave's image to suffer, I try to not be a jerk and make amends when I am. If someone ever thinks to themself that they would have liked to use or contribute to Octave but would rather not because they don't want to deal with me, then I have almost certainly done something very wrong that I should not have done.