Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-26 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 02:47:57PM -0800, Jonathan Walther wrote: I have never endorsed any particular political point of view while using my debian.org address. I feel rather uncomfortable with the way the thread has been going; could you clarify whether you meant that I actually had done

Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-26 Thread Justin F. Knotzke
quote who=Lukas Ruf date=[040225 10:46]/ Just to mention: in some countries distributing racist material or neglecting the holocaust can be punished by law. I do not know what is the situation in British Columbia British Columbia being part of Canada makes it quite illegal. Canada has

Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-26 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 17:44 +0100, Thomas Sjögren wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 06:02:22PM +0200, Martin Hardie wrote: so the use of debian products for rascist work is ok for debian its a distribution of an operating system, how do you

Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-26 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 02:47:57PM -0800, Jonathan Walther wrote: I have never endorsed any particular political point of view while using my debian.org address. I feel rather uncomfortable with the way the thread has been going; could you clarify whether you meant that I actually had done

Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-26 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 17:44 +0100, Thomas Sjögren wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 06:02:22PM +0200, Martin Hardie wrote: so the use of debian products for rascist work is ok for debian its a distribution of an operating system, how do you

Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-26 Thread Justin F. Knotzke
quote who=Lukas Ruf date=[040225 10:46]/ Just to mention: in some countries distributing racist material or neglecting the holocaust can be punished by law. I do not know what is the situation in British Columbia British Columbia being part of Canada makes it quite illegal. Canada has

Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-25 Thread Martin Hardie
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [ox-en] Walther Date: Wednesday 25 February 2004 15:54 From: Martin Hardie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tacincala [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wednesday 25 February 2004 15:25, Tacincala wrote: http://reactor-core.org/discrimination/

Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-25 Thread Dale Amon
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 04:37:20PM +0200, Martin Hardie wrote: or is good code more important than this sort of stuff? Yes, as long as his personal beliefs are kept outside of Debian. I think a severe warning to keep his politics outside of Debian would be sufficient. --

Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-25 Thread Lukas Ruf
Dale Amon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-02-25 16:42]: On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 04:37:20PM +0200, Martin Hardie wrote: or is good code more important than this sort of stuff? Yes, as long as his personal beliefs are kept outside of Debian. I think a severe warning to keep his politics outside of

Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-25 Thread Jonathan Walther
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 03:41:13PM +, Dale Amon wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 04:37:20PM +0200, Martin Hardie wrote: or is good code more important than this sort of stuff? Yes, as long as his personal beliefs are kept outside of Debian. I think a severe warning to keep his politics outside

Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-25 Thread michael d. ivey
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 03:41:13PM +, Dale Amon wrote: Yes, as long as his personal beliefs are kept outside of Debian. I think a severe warning to keep his politics outside of Debian would be sufficient. A: Why is this on security? B: I thought we had decided last time that Debian does

Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-25 Thread Martin Hardie
so the use of debian products for rascist work is ok for debian by using debian he associates debians products with rascism On Wednesday 25 February 2004 17:41, Dale Amon wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 04:37:20PM +0200, Martin Hardie wrote: or is good code more important than this sort of

RE: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-25 Thread James Miller
: Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 03:41:13PM +, Dale Amon wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 04:37:20PM +0200, Martin Hardie wrote: or is good code more important than this sort of stuff? Yes, as long as his personal beliefs are kept outside of Debian. I think a severe

Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-25 Thread Jan Lühr
Greetings, or is good code more important than this sort of stuff? What's the alternativ? Call the CIA or ths Spanish christian inquisition to check everybodies political correctness? Keep smiling yanosz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-25 Thread Jonathan Walther
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 06:26:47PM +0200, Martin Hardie wrote: Well dont come here. At the local restauraunt I sometimes go to the head waiter wears an Osama is my hero T shirt. I think it is better to ask why do they do what they do anyway. I see. So when I do over the Internet what you just

Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-25 Thread Thomas Sjögren
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 06:02:22PM +0200, Martin Hardie wrote: so the use of debian products for rascist work is ok for debian its a distribution of an operating system, how do you intend to stop insert a politicial view you dont approve of from

RE: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-25 Thread CARMICHAEL, SHAWN (ASI)
] Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther so the use of debian products for rascist work is ok for debian by using debian he associates debians products with rascism On Wednesday 25 February 2004 17:41, Dale Amon wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 04:37:20PM +0200, Martin Hardie wrote: or is good

Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-25 Thread Jan Minar
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 05:44:54PM +0100, Thomas Sjögren wrote: as long theres no racist/whatever propaganda inside debian, whats the problem? Actually, there are/were some two or three racist fortunes in the fortunes-off package, FWIW. -- ``You know those mail clients: MS Outlook, mail(1),

Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-25 Thread Martin Hardie
the differnce is guys is that Debian and free software professes to be based upon a community and a community that believes in sharing and respect and thus must have the guts to move beyond the inane ... no discrimination statement ... freedom rhetoric and stand up for and make political

Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-25 Thread John Goerzen
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 06:50:50PM +0200, Martin Hardie wrote: the differnce is guys is that Debian and free software professes to be based upon a community and a community that believes in sharing and respect and thus must have the guts to move beyond the inane ... no discrimination

Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-25 Thread joost
as long theres no racist/whatever propaganda inside debian, whats the problem? Actually, there are/were some two or three racist fortunes in the fortunes-off package, FWIW. please continue the discussion in debial-politics. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-25 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 03:41:13PM +, Dale Amon wrote: Yes, as long as his personal beliefs are kept outside of Debian. I think a severe warning to keep his politics outside of Debian would be sufficient. I do strongly disagree with his personal thoughts, but I must grant him the right to

Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-25 Thread Jaroslaw Tabor
Hello all! I've just received over 20 mails with Walther in subject. No one from them is related to debian security issues. Is is OK ? I'm receving daily hundreds of mails, and I like to have them sorted by real subject. best regards Jarek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-25 Thread Jonathan Walther
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 09:42:08PM +0100, Horst Pflugstaedt wrote: I think, keeping politics and extremist declarations outside Debian also means, that he/we should not declare such thoughts using official debian mail-addresses. Using corporate addresses means assigning those declarations to

Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-25 Thread Mike Barushok
Shall Intel or AMD also now be tainted, if his computer or server use either of their CPU's? Are we to boycott ATI or Nvidia for allowing him to use a video card created by them? If his mouse is powered by the serial port which is a patent owned by Microsoft, does it mean Microsoft can require

Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-25 Thread Martin Hardie
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [ox-en] Walther Date: Wednesday 25 February 2004 15:54 From: Martin Hardie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tacincala [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wednesday 25 February 2004 15:25, Tacincala wrote: http://reactor-core.org/discrimination/

Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-25 Thread Dale Amon
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 04:37:20PM +0200, Martin Hardie wrote: or is good code more important than this sort of stuff? Yes, as long as his personal beliefs are kept outside of Debian. I think a severe warning to keep his politics outside of Debian would be sufficient. --

Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-25 Thread Lukas Ruf
Dale Amon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-02-25 16:42]: On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 04:37:20PM +0200, Martin Hardie wrote: or is good code more important than this sort of stuff? Yes, as long as his personal beliefs are kept outside of Debian. I think a severe warning to keep his politics outside of

Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-25 Thread Jonathan Walther
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 03:41:13PM +, Dale Amon wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 04:37:20PM +0200, Martin Hardie wrote: or is good code more important than this sort of stuff? Yes, as long as his personal beliefs are kept outside of Debian. I think a severe warning to keep his politics

Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-25 Thread Jonathan Walther
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 04:45:39PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: Just to mention: in some countries distributing racist material or neglecting the holocaust can be punished by law. I do not know what is the situation in British Columbia In Communist Russia it was illegal to own a gun. What

Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-25 Thread Dale Amon
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 06:02:22PM +0200, Martin Hardie wrote: so the use of debian products for rascist work is ok for debian by using debian he associates debians products with rascism On Wednesday 25 February 2004 17:41, Dale Amon wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 04:37:20PM +0200,

Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-25 Thread Martin Hardie
so the use of debian products for rascist work is ok for debian by using debian he associates debians products with rascism On Wednesday 25 February 2004 17:41, Dale Amon wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 04:37:20PM +0200, Martin Hardie wrote: or is good code more important than this sort of

RE: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-25 Thread James Miller
@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 03:41:13PM +, Dale Amon wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 04:37:20PM +0200, Martin Hardie wrote: or is good code more important than this sort of stuff? Yes, as long as his personal beliefs are kept outside of Debian. I

Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-25 Thread Jan Lühr
Greetings, or is good code more important than this sort of stuff? What's the alternativ? Call the CIA or ths Spanish christian inquisition to check everybodies political correctness? Keep smiling yanosz

Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-25 Thread John Goerzen
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 06:02:22PM +0200, Martin Hardie wrote: so the use of debian products for rascist work is ok for debian Yes, it is. Our Debian Free Software Guidelines enforce a mandate of no discrimination. Software included in Debian does not discriminate on people based on their

Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-25 Thread Jonathan Walther
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 06:26:47PM +0200, Martin Hardie wrote: Well dont come here. At the local restauraunt I sometimes go to the head waiter wears an Osama is my hero T shirt. I think it is better to ask why do they do what they do anyway. I see. So when I do over the Internet what you

Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-25 Thread Thomas Sjögren
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 06:02:22PM +0200, Martin Hardie wrote: so the use of debian products for rascist work is ok for debian its a distribution of an operating system, how do you intend to stop insert a politicial view you dont approve of from

Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-25 Thread Martin Hardie
Debian is useable by anyoen. Let's not go down that road or you'll have everyone trying to decide who is allowed to use what software for what purpose and since practically everyone hates *someone*, the whole endeavour dies. This is not about personal dislike. It is about the dubious claim

RE: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-25 Thread CARMICHAEL, SHAWN (ASI)
@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther so the use of debian products for rascist work is ok for debian by using debian he associates debians products with rascism On Wednesday 25 February 2004 17:41, Dale Amon wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 04:37:20PM +0200, Martin Hardie wrote

Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-25 Thread Jan Minar
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 05:44:54PM +0100, Thomas Sjögren wrote: as long theres no racist/whatever propaganda inside debian, whats the problem? Actually, there are/were some two or three racist fortunes in the fortunes-off package, FWIW. -- ``You know those mail clients: MS Outlook, mail(1),

Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-25 Thread Martin Hardie
the differnce is guys is that Debian and free software professes to be based upon a community and a community that believes in sharing and respect and thus must have the guts to move beyond the inane ... no discrimination statement ... freedom rhetoric and stand up for and make political

Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-25 Thread John Goerzen
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 06:50:50PM +0200, Martin Hardie wrote: the differnce is guys is that Debian and free software professes to be based upon a community and a community that believes in sharing and respect and thus must have the guts to move beyond the inane ... no discrimination

Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-25 Thread joost
as long theres no racist/whatever propaganda inside debian, whats the problem? Actually, there are/were some two or three racist fortunes in the fortunes-off package, FWIW. please continue the discussion in debial-politics.

Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-25 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 03:41:13PM +, Dale Amon wrote: Yes, as long as his personal beliefs are kept outside of Debian. I think a severe warning to keep his politics outside of Debian would be sufficient. I do strongly disagree with his personal thoughts, but I must grant him the right to

Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-25 Thread Jaroslaw Tabor
Hello all! I've just received over 20 mails with Walther in subject. No one from them is related to debian security issues. Is is OK ? I'm receving daily hundreds of mails, and I like to have them sorted by real subject. best regards Jarek

Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-25 Thread Jonathan Walther
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 09:42:08PM +0100, Horst Pflugstaedt wrote: I think, keeping politics and extremist declarations outside Debian also means, that he/we should not declare such thoughts using official debian mail-addresses. Using corporate addresses means assigning those declarations to

Re: Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Walther

2004-02-25 Thread Mike Barushok
Shall Intel or AMD also now be tainted, if his computer or server use either of their CPU's? Are we to boycott ATI or Nvidia for allowing him to use a video card created by them? If his mouse is powered by the serial port which is a patent owned by Microsoft, does it mean Microsoft can require