Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (317 mails)

[Swapnil Bhartiya <swapnil.bhartiya@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/18/2012 10:15 PM, DenverD wrote:
> On 01/18/2012 08:52 PM, Guido Berhoerster wrote:
> > * 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.
>
> i agree and suggest the board grossly overstepped their authority and
> their irresponsible behavior should be dealt with in some appropriate
> fashion...their removal would not be any more radical than their
> decision to jump into USA politics..
>
> btw i am very anti-SOPA/PIPA but that is a private individual matter
> between me (as a citizen) and my government....this Community and its
> Board has _no_ standing in this matter whatsoever...in fact it is almost
> as childish to go black for a day as it is for the US government to
> think it can control the net in the first place...they do not have a clue.

I think it was even more childish to create an open source project and 
waste time of hundreds of developers to create free and open source 
projects. Right?

By the way I don't think MPAA's desire to control the Internet are 
childish. This word doesn't fit in this context. openSUSE board has made 
a very commendable decision and we thank them for taking a stand.

Swapnil
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