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Re: [opensuse-project] Re: SOPA blackout - I don't think openSUSE ought to be making political statements.
- From: Basil Chupin <blchupin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:16:34 +1100
- Message-id: <4F196932.6080108@iinet.net.au>
On 21/01/12 00:01, Per Jessen wrote:
The debate will only come from people such as those who are now currently 'debating' this topic.
If the Board makes a stance such as it did on this proposed SOPA stupidity then there should not be any debate.
Just on this matter of SOPA. This proposed law in USA has not even been properly debated in their Houses let alone enacted and yet the founder of Megadownloads was arrested *in* *New* *Zealand* as a result of SOPA as far as I can ascertain. What would happen if that law actually got enacted in the land of freedom and Disneyland and Days of Our Life?
BC
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C wrote:
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 13:40, Per Jessen<per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:As futile as our previous lengthy debates on strategy etc. perhaps. :-(
But.. DenverD isn't done trolling here :-PAnyway... those that are offended by the board's actions will neverWhat's done is done, it can't be changed and it's not interesting any
see the other side.. and those who support the actions (like me)
will never think it was a bad idea.... so... :-P Â we will go in
circles here for weeks.
more. Â For the future however, I think we ought to amend the guiding
principles to unequivocally state that openSUSE does not engage in or
endorse any kind of policical activism.
Requesting such an amendment to the guiding principles will be an
"interesting" and endless debate with no clear answer... open source
is in itself a political statement.... and ties into copyrights,
patents and so many other things. personally I think such a demand is
doomed to failure.. not to say that a proposal should not be tendered,
but... it'll be a long drawn out endless and futile argument.
At least the issue of political activism is straight forward - if we say
no, end of debate. If we say yes, no end of debate.
The debate will only come from people such as those who are now currently 'debating' this topic.
If the Board makes a stance such as it did on this proposed SOPA stupidity then there should not be any debate.
Just on this matter of SOPA. This proposed law in USA has not even been properly debated in their Houses let alone enacted and yet the founder of Megadownloads was arrested *in* *New* *Zealand* as a result of SOPA as far as I can ascertain. What would happen if that law actually got enacted in the land of freedom and Disneyland and Days of Our Life?
BC
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It is in the nature of things that every time you try to avoid one danger you
run into another.
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