Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1264 mails)

[Nelson Marques <nmo.marques@xxxxxxxxx>]

Wrong, we're talking about a package, packaging rules...

2011/9/10 todd rme <toddrme2178@xxxxxxxxx>:
> dmueller@suse.dedmueller@suse.dedmueller@xxxxxxxxx Sat, Sep 10, 2011
> at 8:56 PM, Nelson Marques <nmo.marques@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > What do you mean?
> >
> > I'm not sure if this is the answer you are looking for... but... as I
> > see it... a project/community like openSUSE is meant to be a
> > pluri-cultural community, this means we have people from all believes
> > and races tagging along for something we all believe, free open source
> > software...
> >
> > While it is legit to have such a rule to prevent openSUSE to be
> > associated with 'religion' or 'politics' as an organization and
> > community, which I totally subscribe, the place for such a rule would
> > be in trademarks, logo's, official communication, forums and
> > netiquette.
> >
> > I don't think such statement should be in the packaging guidelines...
> > lets be honest... can anyone ensure to me that packages like 'fortune'
> > don't have any quotations with religious or political origins? Has
> > someone ever pulled out the ban hammer on them? Why this one in
> > particular?
> >
> > I refered to Kristallnacht because many historians have pointed it as
> > the first step to what would end up being the Holocaust. The
> > traditional image most people have (at least that I know) is the one
> > of burning books which became forbiden. Really from that perspective
> > doesn't seem much different from what some people are trying to
> > achieve.
> >
> > Other distros have the package and no drama, no one seems to feel
> > offended, but we have to be different? I'm sorry but I feel this
> > difference bring us to the negative side of things...
> >
> > I think all people agree it shouldn't be a part of the default
> > openSUSE install, but going from there to banish the package from
> > OBS... come on... is this really the true face of openSUSE ?.
> >
> > NM
>
> Let me see if I understand this correctly:  You are comparing a policy
> of trying to avoid controversial topics...with the HOLOCAUST!?  Wow.
>
> -Todd
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