Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (109 mails)

[Patrick Shanahan <ptilopteri@xxxxxxxxx>]

* Mark V <mvyver@xxxxxxxxx> [03-10-10 01:34]:
> Of course you'd make an excellent statement to the list, for the
> board's consumption, about why this isn't just free expression to be
> tolerated even if it is offensive.

Then base/vulgar language would be acceptable as "free expression"? 

> Maybe you help establish the statement is obviously false?

Has no bearing, true/false, on the offensiveness.

> > But we must tread carefully to address the question of where is the line
> > drawn. Many of us express opinions about life in general in our
> > signature tags. And many of those opinions expressed are fairly harmless
> > and are not interpreted as offensive in any way.

Religion and political expressions should not be present in tag lines.
But the discussion of such should be allowed in the same light, of course
in the proper forum, while not deviating from openSUSE guiding
principles.

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