Re: [Gimp-user] Violation of GNOME Code of Conduct - ablelist language and discrimination

2021-05-28 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr via gimp-user-list
Ruben Safir wrote: you. Nobody really disputes that GIMP is a "harmless" word to the majority of the worlds population. But "majority" is not necessarily the relevant metrics here. Actually it is. There is also the political aspect of not caving into newspeak despots This, so much this.

Re: [Gimp-user] [Hangout - NYLXS] Violation of GNOME Code of Conduct - Grow a pair, don't be so sensitive, else they might change it to WIMP

2021-05-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 28 May 2021 11:55:17 S. via gimp-user-list wrote: > I first heard this name other than the software in the movie Pulp > Fiction, and didn't even know what the hell it meant. Grow a pair, > don't be so sensitive, else they might change it to WIMP That almost makes sense since the

Re: [Gimp-user] Violation of GNOME Code of Conduct - ablelist language and discrimination

2021-05-28 Thread Dave Stevens
On Fri, 28 May 2021 13:41:56 -0400 Ruben Safir wrote: > Anyone who is in favor of codes of conduct are real threat to all of > free software. > > really Ruben I think you should stop this. My objection to the OP's concern was that it is a distraction from what is clearly intended to be a

Re: [Gimp-user] Violation of GNOME Code of Conduct - ablelist language and discrimination

2021-05-28 Thread Ross Martinek
Yes, I found the OP highly offensive—and I have disabilities. But GIMP is an acronym, pronounced and written “gimp.” That word, like so many others, is only offensive if INTENDED as such. “Smile when you say that!" The name of the program cannot be so intended, ergo no offense applies, or is

Re: [Gimp-user] [Hangout - NYLXS] Violation of GNOME Code of Conduct - Grow a pair, don't be so sensitive, else they might change it to WIMP

2021-05-28 Thread S. via gimp-user-list
I first heard this name other than the software in the movie Pulp Fiction, and didn't even know what the hell it meant. Grow a pair, don't be so sensitive, else they might change it to WIMP On Friday, May 28, 2021, 11:50:56 AM EDT, Michael Richards via gimp-user-list wrote: Dear

Re: [Gimp-user] Violation of GNOME Code of Conduct - ablelist language and discrimination

2021-05-28 Thread Dave Stevens
On Fri, 28 May 2021 13:30:25 -0500 Ross Martinek wrote: > Limpingly, > > Ross +1 ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives:

Re: [Gimp-user] Violation of GNOME Code of Conduct - ablelist language and discrimination

2021-05-28 Thread Norbert Preining via gimp-user-list
Hi, I am quite confident that there will be no action regarding name change of the GIMP from the GNOME side, considering that if they do something, they would be forced to change their own name first or being considered hypocrit (gnome is a derogative term in several languages including my mother

Re: [Gimp-user] Violation of GNOME Code of Conduct - ablelist language and discrimination

2021-05-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 28 May 2021 00:35:20 Bob Long wrote: > Michael Richards via gimp-user-list wrote on 28/5/21 9:24 am: > > Thank you Frederico, > > > > I appreciate this. I have removed myself from the GIMP-user-list for > > now but am open to speaking with the maintainers of Gnu Image > > Manipulation

Re: [Gimp-user] Violation of GNOME Code of Conduct - ablelist language and discrimination

2021-05-28 Thread Ruben Safir
On 5/28/21 12:04 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > Kill the secret communist style party organ to judge social credit > scores. Kill the secret communist style party organ to judge social credit scores. It needs to die. There is no justiification to chill speech and to have tribuanals. -- So

Re: [Gimp-user] Violation of GNOME Code of Conduct - ablelist language and discrimination

2021-05-28 Thread Ruben Safir
Anyone who is in favor of codes of conduct are real threat to all of free software. -- 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

Re: [Gimp-user] Violation of GNOME Code of Conduct - ablelist language and discrimination

2021-05-28 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr via gimp-user-list
Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Michael Richards via gimp-user-list [05-27-21 19:34]: Thank you Frederico, I appreciate this. I have removed myself from the GIMP-user-list for now but am open to speaking with the maintainers of Gnu Image Manipulation Program, the CoC, and/or the board of

Re: [Gimp-user] Violation of GNOME Code of Conduct - ablelist language and discrimination

2021-05-28 Thread Adrian Midgley via gimp-user-list
What does Michael Richards do? On Fri, 28 May 2021, 08:21 Gene Heskett, wrote: > On Friday 28 May 2021 00:35:20 Bob Long wrote: > > > Michael Richards via gimp-user-list wrote on 28/5/21 9:24 am: > > > Thank you Frederico, > > > > > > I appreciate this. I have removed myself from the

Re: [Gimp-user] Violation of GNOME Code of Conduct - ablelist language and discrimination

2021-05-28 Thread Marco Ciampa via gimp-user-list
On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 11:26:41PM +0300, Cristian Secară wrote: > În data de Tue, 25 May 2021 11:19:43 -0700, Michael Richards via > gimp-user-list a scris: > > > > > I formally request that the GIMP name be changed on the basis that it > > violates the GNOME Code of Conduct. > > > > I make

Re: [Gimp-user] Violation of GNOME Code of Conduct - ablelist language and discrimination

2021-05-28 Thread Simon Budig
Hi all. Adrian Midgley via gimp-user-list (gimp-user-list@gnome.org) wrote: > What does Michael Richards do? Please stop this kind of implied ad-hominem attack. Thank you. And to all others: Thanks for your input. Seems the name discussion rears its head again. It is not necessary to explain

Re: [Gimp-user] Violation of GNOME Code of Conduct - ablelist language and discrimination

2021-05-28 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Adrian Midgley via gimp-user-list [05-28-21 05:57]: > What does Michael Richards do? > > On Fri, 28 May 2021, 08:21 Gene Heskett, wrote: > > > On Friday 28 May 2021 00:35:20 Bob Long wrote: > > > > > Michael Richards via gimp-user-list wrote on 28/5/21 9:24 am: > > > > Thank you Frederico, >

Re: [Gimp-user] Violation of GNOME Code of Conduct - ablelist language and discrimination

2021-05-28 Thread Adrian Midgley via gimp-user-list
Does he have standing? Does he have experience? Does he have a better suggested name, title, acronym or abbreviation for the software (no) Is he an actor?? Does he - I don't suggest he does - make a habit of demanding changes without contributing to making changes, or the things he changes? GIMP

Re: [Gimp-user] Violation of GNOME Code of Conduct - ablelist language and discrimination

2021-05-28 Thread Michael Schumacher via gimp-user-list
On 5/28/21 2:31 PM, Adrian Midgley via gimp-user-list wrote: > * Please stop this kind of implied ad-hominem attack. Thank you. -- Regards, Michael GPG: 96A8 B38A 728A 577D 724D 60E5 F855 53EC B36D 4CDD ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:

Re: [Gimp-user] Violation of GNOME Code of Conduct - ablelist language and discrimination

2021-05-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 28 May 2021 05:54:39 Adrian Midgley via gimp-user-list wrote: > What does Michael Richards do? > No clue, I don't care enough to look up a BSc. But I have a certificate card in my billfold and an 8x10 on the wall thats probably 1000x rarer, I am a CET. Its got me every job I have

Re: [Gimp-user] Violation of GNOME Code of Conduct - ablelist language and discrimination

2021-05-28 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine via gimp-user-list
On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 6:55 PM Ruben Safir wrote: > > > > Federico - as chairperson of the CoC Committee, and Board member. > > Kill the secret communist style party organ to judge social credit > scores. I guess I have to post a reminder after all. https://www.gimp.org/mail_lists.html

Re: [Gimp-user] Violation of GNOME Code of Conduct - ablelist language and discrimination

2021-05-28 Thread Ruben Safir
> you. Nobody really disputes that GIMP is a "harmless" word to the > majority of the worlds population. But "majority" is not necessarily the > relevant metrics here. > Actually it is. There is also the political aspect of not caving into newspeak despots

Re: [Gimp-user] Violation of GNOME Code of Conduct - ablelist language and discrimination

2021-05-28 Thread Ruben Safir
> > Federico - as chairperson of the CoC Committee, and Board member. > Kill the secret communist style party organ to judge social credit scores. It is disgusting > ___ > gimp-user-list mailing list > List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org >

Re: [Gimp-user] Violation of GNOME Code of Conduct - ablelist language and discrimination

2021-05-28 Thread Ruben Safir
On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 04:24:11PM -0700, Michael Richards via gimp-user-list wrote: > Thank you Frederico, > > I appreciate this. I have removed myself from the GIMP-user-list Fly by night left wing totaletarian BS. ___ gimp-user-list mailing list

Re: [Gimp-user] Violation of GNOME Code of Conduct - ablelist language and discrimination

2021-05-28 Thread Ruben Safir
On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 04:48:21PM -0400, Liam R E Quin wrote: > On Tue, 2021-05-25 at 23:26 +0300, Cristian Secară wrote: > > > > In what language stands the name as discrimination ? > > English. > Not English > > -- > Liam Quin - https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ > > IRC chat - ankh or