[CLUE-Talk] Iraq Stuph

[Angelo Bertolli]

I'll try to keep this short since I do not want to sound rude or 
unpleasant.  I disagree with the basic thrust of what you said about 
Linux, but I was wrong about this list.  I was wrong to give the 
impression that "we should only talk about Linux" because clearly the 
list states that it is not a Linux-only list.  I was just taken back by 
recently joining the list and being hit with that.

However, I disagree that the Iraq politics has any place in the Linux 
world, and in fact should be kept out.  The reason is because I find 
that this is a no-win subject that just creates arguments.  And maybe it 
doesn't make a big difference to us in the western world, but think of 
it this way:  Open Source is about people working together and being 
accepted--that no one should be turned down from working, contributing, 
or being a member of the community based on their background or 
political ideology.  I think we (potentially) alienate people by 
including non-technological politics into Linux (to our detriment).

Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:

>On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 16:15, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
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