Lars Müller wrote:
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 01:40:27PM +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
C wrote:
Anyway... those that are offended by the board's actions will never see the other side.. and those who support the actions (like me) will never think it was a bad idea.... so... :-P we will go in circles here for weeks.
What's done is done, it can't be changed and it's not interesting any more. 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.
This statement doesn't hit the nail.
It's difficult to get it right, which is why I think it's better to be very black and white.
I agress that the openSUSE board should not make any general political statement. For example it's not the primarily issue of the openSUSE project to discuss if atomic power plants are the right or wrong way to go.
With PIPA and SOPA it's different. These changes even if (first) installed and forced in the USA sooner or later even might hit us. Not only as part of our infrastructure is operated there.
With Samba we joined the protest too. But we made it quite simple and let all known links lead to the same result as before. Only the starting page got redirected.
As Per said the way the German wikipedia page handled it looks like a better approach.
I can't remember if I said that, but I agree :-) -- Per Jessen, Zürich (5.5°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org