Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (317 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joop Boonen wrote:

> On Wed, January 18, 2012 11:55 am, Per Jessen wrote:
> > Basil Chupin wrote:
> >
> > > On 18/01/12 20:31, C wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 09:51, Per Jessen<per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > > > > Just my opinion - I think openSUSE should stay far away from
> > > > > politics of
> > > > > any kind.  It doesn't matter whether it might affect the project
> > > > > or
> > > > > not.  If we had seen a discussion of SOPA on opensuse-general
> > > > > or -factory, it would have been fairly quickly relegated to
> > > > > opensuse-offtopic.
> > > > It's a very fine line, but I support the decision 100%.
> > > >
> > > > This is not some grumpy obscure country/government saying we don't
> > > > want your website in our country (eg what China does with the Great
> > > > Firewall), this is a grumpy not-so-obscure country/government
> > > > potentially saying we don't want your website available to anyone
> > > > regardless of where you are.
> > > >
> > > > Sometimes we as a community need to stand up and say hang on a sec
> > > > there... and this is one of those times.
> > > >
> > > > C
> > > I agree.
> > >
> > > BC
> >
> > I think it would be a waste of everybodys time trying to decide when
> > it
> > is "one of those times".  I sincerely hope openSUSE will not continue
> > down this slippery slope.
>
> Isn't it the openSUSE:Board that decides?

In this case it clearly it was, but I am not aware that the board has
been given that responsibility. 

> I wonder why you think it's a slippery slope?

If we don't stop right away, it just that.  In my opinion, for a
volunteer organisation to take a stance (on behalf of its members) on a
topic that does essentially not concern it, is a very slippery slope. 
If we start down that path, we will soon be participating in protests
on scores of other themes that are very important to people around the
world. (gm foods, green energy, global warming, immigration policies,
nuclear power, whathaveyou).  It's simply best to leave all of those to
the individual members. 



-- 
Per Jessen, Zürich (1.3°C)

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