On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 15:55:27 +0000, Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Hmm. Let it not be said that I don't respond in a fashion that the responded is likely to understand. > Or, putting it another way: failing to include this piece of code > does Debian no demonstrable harm. Including it does. I know we have > something of a reputation for preferring philosophical masturbation > to actually doing the useful thing, but that shouldn't result in a > several hundred post flamewar. What are you all, stupid or > something? No, moron, but you are. Let me try and express this in as few polysyllabic words as I can. Stupidly enough, you have committed the idiotic mistake of assuming that everyone holds to your premises, that firstly, tolerating intolerance is somehow a good thing -- why should it be is beyond me. Secondly, that giving in to the intolerant bigots is not going to hurt Debian -- it is going to hurt its reputation in enlightened circles, people who are against narrow minded bigotry, and wo recognize art --- even if Bruno Bellamy is not on their own preferred artists of the century list. Not permitting this package would be an indication that Debian has been overrun by art hating, narrow minded, right wing bigoted censors who are pursuing their agenda of imposing narrow minded so called morality on the rest of society. An, in case you do not get it, that is a bad thing. manoj -- "I will make no bargains with terrorist hardware." Peter da Silva Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C