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| DATE | 2020-01-14 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] A summary of some open discussions
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On 1/14/20 2:04 AM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> On 13/01/20 10:51 am, Jean Louis wrote:
>> The big joke in the end is that few of those politically oriented,
>> mostly French GNU members, again wish to censor the joke that was
>> about censorship itself.
>
> 1. As someone in the middle of that whole debacle, I'd like to clarify
> that I'm not French. In fact, I wonder how many glibc contributors we
> have in France. I'll admit that I wouldn't be able to tell French from
> Belgian, etc. given that, well, I'm not French.
>
> 2. As for the manual text, would it be appropriate for me to send emails
> to this list about endangered Wildebeest? Why not? The list is about
> GNUs after all! How about "Free Palestine" or "Free Kashmir"? Why not?
> How about "Stop internet censorship"? The whole thing is a matter of
> debate *only* because of the will of the chief GNUisance.
>
> 3. That censorship claim is ridiculous. If anything, the current GNU
> structure gives the chief gnuisance power and he abused it to keep all
> of us hostage for a year.
>
> 4. That thread ended up exposing much of what is wrong with the top-down
> approach of maintenance. RMS threatened (and Alex executed on his
> behalf) to use his veto power when clearly the majority of the glibc
> community was against his viewpoint on the topic.
>
> Siddhesh
>
"If the whole French consistuency left tomorrow, it would just
provide
more oppurutunities for others, including folks from South East Asia,
and China."
Don't post anything to this list which implies discrimination against
people based on the part of the world from which they reside or were
born."
--
So many immigrant groups have swept through our town
that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological
proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
http://www.mrbrklyn.com
DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002
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Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and extermination camps,
but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013
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