Best red heart

ddsack · January 30, 2018

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Originally Posted by Dutch

I had a gentleman’s agreement with Darin (Darin Dotson) to co-name the variety in question with an aka (also known as). This agreement which Darin agreed to, was between Darin and myself, and no one else. It was stated in open forum and confirmed via PM! Other people gave Darin suggests in the forums here at Tomatoville and advised him to consider other options. This was after our agreement (between Darin and myself) had already been made.
I view Darin's choice to break this agreement as dishonorable and disrespectful.
Dutch

Dutch, I must say I find you bringing this up after all this time as rather disingenuous. Please refer to your original posting at the time at http://www.tomatoville.com/showpost....66&postcount=7

Darin agrees in post #10 http://www.tomatoville.com/showpost....8&postcount=10

Then in post #12 http://www.tomatoville.com/showpost....4&postcount=12 Carolyn flips the names to her own interpretation, not your suggested one.

Then in post #13 http://www.tomatoville.com/showpost....6&postcount=13 You reply using this sentence " Carolyn has the final say so on how I should label the seeds I produced for her."

It was clear from Carolyn's immediate flip of your named suggestion (and all subsequent postings) that she had no intention of using "Dotsons" as the primary name. When you posted that she has the final say of how YOU name Darin's seeds, then you are reneging on your implicit agreement to the suggestion.

Perhaps we all, Darin included, misunderstood what it was he was agreeing to. Was it a one sided agreement where only he had to abide by the terms? That's not an agreement, that's an edict! Do you honestly think he would have agreed to it if you had phrased it as " you have to call it this, but we can call it anything we want! Hard to see where that can be called a "gentleman's" agreement if it was intentionally meant to be an underhanded way to get him to agree.

The whole old thread for those who care is at http://www.tomatoville.com/showthrea...lebanese+heart