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But it's not speculation:

> ...according to four people familiar with the discussions who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe them, as well as tweets from some of the people involved.



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No, the article that confirmed only confirmed that some sort of talk has been going on - not any of the specifics.

Not rumors, judging by the contents of this article.

And that's what we know about. Other people involved had their names redacted from the proposal, for some unknown reason...

Even the article states that's just speculation.

> There were no further details, but some fans seem to think they might know what's going on...


Just to be clear, this story is rumors from unnamed sources.

All of the people involved have been very open about their identities and what they've been up to. It's sort of their MO. Pure speculation on my part, but I imagine it's basically a giant middle finger to everyone else.

Do we know these are facts or are these pundit interpretations of nods and whispers? I see a lot of people screaming about how it went down, but they are just citing thrice-removed speculation from a blog four months ago.

So some people had a meeting. Someone suggested this. It was written down in the minutes. The rest is speculation.

Seems like a complete non story.


This is not gossip. It's about as official as you can get.

They mentioned it clearly. They said had hidden something from them.

The other story was later constructed in forums and media.


They are tweeting about it, and I'd expect a post mortem as they have been transparent in the past.

It's information to me (and it will be to a lot of people i suspect). I never saw what happened reported anywhere so succinctly. There was a lot of speculation reported.

They have? I saw and appreciated Josh Triplett's post, but still find it mysterious who the original group of people were who were not comfortable with the blog post / talk and reached out to people about it. I'm not at all sure it's any of my business to know who they are, and I'm not terribly interested. I'm just saying that I don't think that part has been publicized.

These individuals spoke at a news conference apparently

"People familiar with the matter" gave the story to the WSJ reporter, so likely people that were in some of the meetings. The WSJ story is more comprehensive:

https://archive.is/tyZq2#selection-6231.180-6234.0


Rumors aren't news. This is news because it confirms our analysis, and its the first time we've know this information for sure.

I think it’s about something that they aren’t talking about openly.

It's not a whisper rumor. That speculation has been extremely rampant for years at this point.

It also says in the article that other names may have been removed, but the proceedings were handled privately.
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