On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 01:37:20PM -0500, Evan Prodromou wrote: > >>>>> "GW" == Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@gwolf.cx> writes: > > GW> However, I do feel that trying to be politically correct in > GW> order never to offend anyone is plain stupid. > > How about this: > > 1) We act courteous, mature, and professional towards each other. > > 2) When representing Debian, we think ahead of time about what image > we want to portray. Fuck that. > If we work together better, we're more productive and we make a better > operating system. Sure, and that's best accomplished by everybody not being a wuss. Your proposed scenario is "We work together better but we can't get anything done because we can't talk to each other for fear of offending somebody". I find your suggestion that this is something we should be doing to be fairly offensive, so you've already failed. I don't want people to say "this might be suboptimal" instead of "this is crap", because then I won't be able to tell the difference between things that are crap and things that are suboptimal. I *want* to know when something is crap, because it needs priority attention. Everything else follows from there. People who can't call things by their real names are not useful. > If we're respectful to our users and potential users, we get _more_ > users, who then help us make a better operating system. No, we get *more* users, who then waste more of our time. Any arguments along the lines of "more users are better" are flawed. I assert that Debian users are more intelligent than the average person (not difficult; pond life is more intelligent than the average person). Therefore anything which invites more users evenly from the population at large can only decrease the average intelligence of a Debian user, which I consider to be an extremely bad thing. I get far too much mail from idiot users already. > That's not "plain stupid". That's common sense. Common sense is what tells you that the world is flat. It is roughly equivalent to "plain stupid". -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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