Re: Neil's Newsforge article

Rob Kaper <[email protected]>
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On Tuesday September 09 2003 12:49 am, Navindra Umanee wrote:
> > If it turns out the Iranian government hinders KDE development in that
> > what if an Iraqi developer would join the project in the future, an
> > opportunity that he probably would not ever have had with Saddam in
> > control
>
> Again, you have to bring in Iran, Iraq and Saddam?

Those *are* current events related to the US army, no? I was just giving an 
example of how the credit this is all about could very well directly affect 
some KDE development.

> Nice going using all of this as an excuse to claim that KDE is
> anti-American and to push whatever politics.

I never claimed that and in fact have argued against Neil when he did. I'm in 
favor of a apolitical KDE because I believe that majority ruling of "what 
affects KDE directly" risks being shaped by geopolitical opinions skewed by a 
disproportionate amount of developers in a certain geopolitical region. If 
that's pushing politics..
 
> Certainly an effective  approach to dragging us back down to the dark ages
> of KDE PR...  your website must have gotten a lot of publicity?  Made it #1
> on Google? 

I'm sorry, did I even mention my website in the mail you are replying to?

But since you bring it up, yes, we seem to be #1 for "kde anti-americanism", 
before the Dot. And #2 for "kde anti-american", after it. Since both sites 
have very relevant content on that matter, I can see why they rank high.

Not that I see why it matters in this discussion, other than that apparently 
my concerns are invalid to you because a website where Neil and I post has 
decent Google ratings.

Rob
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