On Wed, 13 May 2020 11:05:10 +0300 Tzafrir Cohen <tzaf...@cohens.org.il> wrote:
> On 13/05/2020 6:17, Steve Litt wrote: > > The following is a > > contemporaneous description of why: > > > > http://troubleshooters.com/lpm/200908/200908.htm#_The_Politics_of_Free_Software:_Pet_predjudices > > > > If anybody knows the location of a web resource in which the Mint > > project completely repudiated the unfortunate words Clem LeFebre > > placed *on the official Mint blog*, I'll change my stance. > > Otherwise, I'll neither use nor recommend Linux Mint. > > See the archived Wikipedia talk page: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Linux_Mint/Archive_Israel-Palestine_Controversy Huh? Which part of the preceding link's 20997 word pile of diatribes is the point you're making? > On the official blog he wrote: > https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=775 > That is: that politics is out of the official Linux Mint blog. And that would have been sufficient if the Mint project hadn't deliberately rejected my suggestion. > > > > > Just in case somebody here doesn't know what we're talking about, > > the message originally posted on the official Linux Mint blog > > included the phrase "I don’t want any money or help coming from > > Israel or people who support the action of their current > > government." > > As of 2012, an Israeli company is listed (with an Israeli flag) in > Linux Mint's partners page: > https://www.linuxmint.com/partners.php Some of my best friends are Black. (The preceding is an American idiom for a bigot who claims not to be because he has friends in the group he's bigotted against.) SteveT Steve Litt May 2020 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
