Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 11:33:45 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>, FreeBSD-advocacy <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Are we a Political Action Committee ? Message-ID: <19980514113345.U320@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980513145604.927B-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>; from Jason C. Wells on Wed, May 13, 1998 at 03:15:38PM %2B0000 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980513145604.927B-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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On Wed, 13 May 1998 at 15:15:38 +0000, Jason C. Wells wrote: > Mr. Hasty's letter to Dan Morales regarding Dell and Compaq is the > inspiration for this question. Are we a Politcal Action Committee? > > Politics are of local interest. This is a global forum. > > Politics are of interest to individuals and the government whom they live > under. This is a group and is not beholden to any particular government. > > Emotive political discussion on this list can only cause division. This > should not happen. > > As a member of this group, I am woe to be included, by default, in > positions and opinions that I do not, myself, agree with. To make an > incredibly graphic example, "A letter to the President of the United > States: We, the members of the FreeBSD community, think that you should > nuke Dubai because they don't use enough FreeBSD." Ridiculous, perhaps. > Would you like it if I sent off such a letter and plastered the FreeBSD > name _or your name_ all over it? > > -- What do you mean, No!? > > FreeBSD-advocacy should not be _directly_ engaged in the politics of > governments. Agreed. More to the point, I think that any view purporting to be from FreeBSD-advocacy should first be discussed in the group. I don't have any particular disagreement with Amancio for expressing his views, but I did find it necessary to send a second message expressing my personal disagreement with the view itself. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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