Hi Tzafrir and all! On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 11:05 AM Tzafrir Cohen <tzaf...@cohens.org.il> wrote:
> Hi, > > On 13/05/2020 6:17, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Tue, 12 May 2020 09:44:34 +0300 > > Shlomi Fish <shlo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Hi Geoffrey! > >> > >> Please see > >> https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il/msg66441.html and > >> let's drop the "antisemitism" argument once and for all. > > > > Well, speaking only for myself, in 2009 I erased Mint from all my > > computers and never used it again. 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 > > On the official blog he wrote: > https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=775 > That is: that politics is out of the official Linux Mint blog. > > > > > 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 > > I'd say: what was was was was. > > I just would like to say that I agree with you here. From my experience, life is too short to hold such grudges and keep finding flies in ointments. (Written in part by inspiration from Eli Marmor's law). > -- Tzafrir > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > -- Shlomi Fish https://www.shlomifish.org/ Buddha has the Chuck Norris nature. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .
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