I don't see an issue in clem's views, as long that it stays off the community's ground. His apology for mixing open source with politics is here: https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=775
I have no idea if this will fuel or calm things, but there is an archived talk sub-page on wikipedia on the subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Linux_Mint/Archive_Israel-Palestine_Controversy I find mint to be very useful, both for "professional" and "home" users. I tried ubuntu for a while, it left a bitterer taste than any other distro i tried before. Yehuda ------------------------------ *Yehuda Deutsch | IT Developer* On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 8:42 PM, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > On Sun, 19 Nov 2017 18:15:37 +0200 > Geoffrey Mendelson <geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > [very offtopic] > > As for moving on, I have, on to another less political distro. > > > > Geoff. > > I was in the process of converting all my and my family's computers to > Mint when I heard about Clem's litmus test. I switched to Ubuntu, > causing myself quite a bit of extra work undoing new Mint installations. > > I quit publically criticizing Mint over that affair five years ago, and > in fact they haven't done anything stupid since 2009. But I still have > a bad taste in my mouth, so I personally don't use or recommend Mint. > > Kind of like I don't buy Volkswagens. Or Mel Gibson movies. I wouldn't > enjoy driving the former or watching the latter. > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > November 2017 featured book: Troubleshooting: Just the Facts > http://www.troubleshooters.com/tjust > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >
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