Re: Is Andreas Pour a Leftist?

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On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 07:18:01PM -0600, Andreas Pour wrote:
> Censors how?  I have not heard ever KDE telling anybody, if your opinions=
 don't
> match mine, you cannot contribute to KDE.  As far as the official KDE web=
site is
> concerned, that obviously is not a forum for personal opinions.  As I not=
ed,
> personal opinions need to be kept separate from actual contributions (suc=
h as on
> this mailing list :-) ).

But if a writer for a newspaper is edited by his editor, it *is* censorship
to you?

> While the Constitution only circumscribes government power, the principles
> of freedom, if you believe in them, apply to everyone, and grant the
> individual the right, subject of course to civility, to speak unpopular
> ideas, practice an unpopular religion or publish unpopular viewpoints
> w/out suffering banishment from the community or other forms of
> punishment.  And you don't have to be Henry Thoreau or Thomas Jefferson to
> appreciate that :-).

So why did the KDE community threaten to banish a developer when he included
some credits deemed unpopular in his software?

Why is it okay for Davaldo Granulow to keep seperate personal opinions from
contributions to the product and not for an editor of a Canadian newspaper?

Rob
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