martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> also sprach Jari Aalto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.01.31.0003 +0000]:
>> Perhaps, but I think a better named package can be selected for examples that
>> are consumed by general audience.
>
> I oppose on the sole reason that if we start this, we'll never get
> anywhere.
>
> http://blog.madduck.net/culture/2006.11.06_madduck-s-law-of-misconstruction
>From thae page:
If a law already exists to capture the specific phenomenon of
society to consider more things offensive than pleasant, I'll take
back my claim in return for a pointer. Note that for a given
society, this very phenomenon has a strong positive congruence
with a nation's affinity to the term "political correctness".
My statement is a almost directly derived from the commonly
accepted truth that "you cannot please everyone"; the sole
intermediate step I took during its development relates to the
over-interpretation of the semantics of gendered words to describe
people.
I don't see relevance here. The blog talks about individual opinions
and stances on subjects where pure subjectivity is the easure to "do
what one pleases". The so called "American-style freedom": to be
politically incorrect if one chooses and give a damn the rest of the
world if one so chooses. Invidual in this is the highest measure of
all; his opinion; his rights; his choices.
The ideas were already presented in th 70's hippie movement.
Now, I was talking about Debian "The Project". This "Project" has wide
audience and it is not resticted to semantic quarrels and word
twisting that is typical to US culture. There are derived projects
from Debian, there are distributions based on Debian; it is shipped
world wide.
The point was not to be *political*, the point was being and giving
impression of
- high quality software
- professionalism
- things done right (at first time)
The Debian Project happens to be one of the flagships of Open Source.
Any piece in it that does "what one pleases" undermines the "Project"
and cocialism inbound in it (= "Social contract"); Individualism
should not be the playground inside Debian, but putting effor to the
"Project in large"
So, For the Debian project, the choice of words and overall impression
of high qualiality does not transfer from used words like:
amphetamine
I wonder, why on earth I need to mention about these issues with
veteran DDs?
Jari
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