2010/6/25 Stone Mirror <[email protected]>: > Since you've brought it up, Patryk, my very first thought in looking at these > guidelines was to marvel at the completeness with which Mr. Stallman's > "keynote" at GCDS last year managed to run roughshod over every single one. > > There's nothing wrong with jokes or humor. When the supposed "humor" comes > directly at the expense of a minority of the audience―a part, in fact, which > is unreasonably small―it should be apparent that this is not the sort of > "humor" we want to be seeing in a keynote address at our community's own > technical conference. > > "Humor" is supposed to be funny; Mr. Stallman was not. A keynote should not > single out a portion of the community for unwanted negative attention, > particularly when that attention is of a sexual nature.
I am not defending RMS. I am just stating that the anti-RMS rules are so vague that any statement can be bent to become a violation. I bet at least one person in the audience is offended when they see the presenter using a Mac. Or sporting a Windows t-shirt. Or using an iPod. Or mentioning that Apple did something better than GNOME. "Security, seize and escort the speaker out of the building." :) > Within the past two weeks, a male attendee sexually assaulted a couple of > women at a Linux conference. Perhaps he believed that they were "EMACS > virgins" and he was exercising his "holy duty". That's completely irrelevant. Do we need to write a list of "no bag stealing", "no puppy strangling" etc.? Sexual assaults are supposed to be dealt with using law enforcement, not speaker guidelines. -- Patryk Zawadzki _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
