On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Christopher Olah<christopherolah...@gmail.com> wrote: >> there is proof posted in both articles > > There are specific events pointed to. I don't think your realize the > severity of the accusations you're making (or supporting...). You are > accusing members of the FOSS community of deliberately censoring and > suppressing people. You are asking for people to be fired. There must > be a high burden of evidence for that sort of thing. > > Specific examples are not strong enough. For example, > >> Now, watch this from Brainstorm. People make the suggestion that Mono should >> not be included by default and the page gets frozen with the following >> reason: > >>> This entry was marked as not being an idea the 3 June 09. If this is a >>> bug report, please use the Ubuntu bug tracker. > >> How is this not an idea? Sounds like an excuse to silence ‘dissent’. > >> One of our readers (unrelated to the above) told us this yesterday: > >>> Hi Roy, the other day I noticed you linked to my brainstorm thread about >>> keeping RB and not moving to Banshee, I mostly did it because I like RB and >>> Banshee, besides of bringing a Mono dependency, is not really as good. > >>> The thread, out of sudden was declared a ‘duplicate’, what’s worse is >>> that the votes were not just locked (like what happens in brainstorm when >>> something is marked as duplicate) but completely removed: > http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/20016/ > >>> It used to have many votes for ‘Keep Rhythmbox” and many negative votes >>> for “Move to Banshee” , it seems that the Mono zealots have acquired too >>> much control of ubuntu brainstorm this is a disgrace. > > ----- > http://boycottnovell.com/2009/06/06/opposition-to-mono-by-default/ > > These sort of things are honestly not that uncommon on Ubuntu > Brainstorm, in my limited experience. It (seems to me that it) is the > result of too many posting ideas that are often not enough people to > administer it. Thus, it is easy for accidents to occur. This isn't > necessarily censorship. >
there's another example of this censorship here: http://boycottnovell.com/2009/06/01/banning-opposition-to-mono/ it is far too commonly happening to just be a coincidence -- Only by destroying MONO can Linux be saved. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
