Ray Olszewski wrote:
> We need to be careful here. Silence does not equal assent, and many of the
> important participants in LEAF have been most notable for their silence on
> this thread.
I'd like to speak up myself. I would also like to echo those
sentiments: silence does not imply my assent.
> My personal goal is to respond in a way that lets me feel OK about living
> with myself. This is, for lack of a better word, a moral concern, not a
> political one. As I've said in other contexts, one cannot control the world,
> but one can at least try to control one's own reaction to the world.
In a sense, this too is my perspective. I can control my own
responses; he has his opinions and certainly has never made them
secret. When I started reading his shell code and seeing how he
signed his name..... that was one of the first things I changed in my
distro...
As distasteful as his views may be, it is not my place to pass
judgement (difficult though that may be at times). In the End, he
will not be judged by any of us. He will have to answer for his own
actions, and not any one else's; same thing for us.
Pi van Riezen said:
> I think you cannot
> criticize a _project_ for having political bias and/or a political agenda.
> Free Software itself is inherently political; Its political nature is the
> very ground that is being attacked so violently these days by the
> Microsoft FUD machines.
I disagree. It is one of its founders, Richard Stallman, who is quite
political. If you compare GNU founder Richard Stallman to the style
and substance of one of Open Source's leading spokesmen today - Eric
Raymond - there is quite a stark contrast between the two.
Charles Steinkuehler said:
> I am un-subscribing myself from the lists at linuxrouter.org, and will
> direct users of my disk images to use the LEAF site/lists, which I will
> remain subscribed to.
It is likely that I will follow suit. It is not likely that I would
sign on to a letter that condemns Dave; as I have said, it is not my
place to judge him; there is another Judge that will do that.
I have been going over this quite a bit, and trying to find what I
want to say. I don't feel I am able to pass judgement on others; I AM
able to choose what forums I will take part in and which I will not.
So I'll be on LEAF-Users shortly and not on LRP.
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