Egggcellent commentary, Edmund! :)
Like Edmund pointed out, it is ridiculous to insist
that a Linux distro be politically correct. This is
open source, remember?
I don't think this is the best forum for debate
political issues, though I would surely like to do so.
How about we start another mailing list like
[EMAIL PROTECTED] so we can grunt at each other in
there instead?
John
--- Edmund Cramp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tim Sullivan wrote:
>
> >Wow, yall went off on a bad tangent from what I
> asked.
> >
> Dear Abby,
>
> My friends all laugh at me because I chose to
> use only software that
> has passed stringent litmus tests for political
> purity. I used to run
> Windows but moved to Linux after I discovered that a
> Republican hasn't
> won the presidential vote in Washington State since
> 1984. Initially, I
> was very please with my switch to Linux, but
> recently I have begun to
> have doubts about my decision - especially in the
> light of Justice
> Departments investigation into the inclusion of
> commands such as "f*ck"
> and the use of "SYN" packets for almost all
> communications - clearly an
> invitation for the forces of evil ( and I don't mean
> just Steve Ballmer,
> clearly a French name derived from B' La Mere ) to
> enter into intimate
> exchanges with my operating system through a female
> receptacle in the
> rear of my network interface card.
> Dear Abby, can you recommend an ideologically
> pure operating
> system? Should I use MSDOS 1.0 or CP/M? Which is
> The One True Distro?
>
> Anxiously awaiting your answer,
> R. Supward in Baton Rouge.
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