Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (317 mails)

[Guido Berhoerster <gber@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Jim Henderson <hendersj@xxxxxxxxx> [2012-01-18 20:07]:
> On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:47:53 +0100, Guido Berhoerster wrote:
>
> > So when is www.opensuse.org going to protest against Chinese internet
> > censorship? Your argument applies there just as well (and probably in
> > numerous other cases).
>
> Do we have a large number of contributors from China currently 
> participating in the project?  Do we have a large installed userbase in 
> China?
>
> Certainly the "Great Firewall of China" needs to be dealt with, but there 
> is a significant difference between the US and China.
>
> The US is supposedly a "free" country.  But due process and other core 
> principles of US freedoms are under attack by laws like SOPA, DMCA, PIPA, 
> etc.  And those changes in US law have implications outside the US.
>
> It's curious that you would equate the two situations - because they're 
> very, *very* different.  They're only similar in that they're about 
> censorship by the government.  But the historical backgrounds of the two 
> countries are very, very different.
>
> That doesn't mean what happens in China is right.  It isn't.

I was trying to point out that the reasoning behind taking part
in this protest promoting a certain politica agenda (no matter
how well intended) is rather arbitrary and the said slippery
slope.
And I'm rather surprised the board is even entitled to make
decisions about such matters which are at best peripherally
related to openSUSE on behalf of the project.
-- 
Guido Berhoerster
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