On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 09:50:08 -0600 Evan Prodromou <evan@debian.org> wrote: > But in any > event, "it's just a joke, have a sense of humor," is a pretty weak and > lame excuse for dumping one's ignorance and insecurity all over the > ground. > Anyone who thinks a joke is _just_ a joke is kidding > themselves. Jokes are powerful and destructive things. > > And, the fact is, people who use this kind of slur, "even as a joke", > come off looking like idiotic knuckleheads. I won't really argue with any of that, except perhaps the "powerful and destructive" bit. But aside from that, I'd agree. The question is, is it *wrong* to make yourself look like a knucklehead? Is it wrong enough to warrant a distribution-wide purge of that sort of text? :) > I would advocate that maintainers can do whatever the hell they want > with their packages, staying within the bounds of the license > specified by the upstream authors. Agreed. :) -- ________________________________________________________________________ \ David B. Harris, Systems administrator | http://www.terrabox.com / / eelf@sympatico.ca, elf@terrabox.com | http://eelf.ddts.net \ \======================================================================/ / Clan Barclay motto: Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death.) \ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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