Re: Neil's Newsforge article

On Saturday 06 September 2003 08:17 pm, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
> > OTOH, if someone can place "Thank the US Army", then why can't someone
> > else say "Fsch the US Army", and so on, and pretty soon it becomes pretty
> > inhospitable and users are put off by the software.  There is no danger
> > of that IMO with focusing on things that directly affect the project's
> > viability.
>
>   That's very true. The apps shouldn't be political statements. If Neil
> would *really* think about the ramifications of his comments, he'd realize
> if they got accepted that there are probably at least five times more KDE
> developers that would end up posting things he disagrees strongly with.

It actually has happened before, and was also reverted for about the same 
reasons (shorter threads, though, since much of the discussion was on IRC):
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-cvs&m=104533176331930&w=2
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-cvs&m=104542994832668&w=2
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-cvs&m=104543016400389&w=2 
(Actually, George removed /both/ of the statements)


>   Best to keep the software apolitical as much as possible.

Wow, I agree with Tim, what's happening? ;-)


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