If the many users support the author and want the new behaviour to stay then
surely a description of the behaviour would be a better fix? If some software
showed US flags based on location and the date of independence day then that
would surely be fine. VLC shows a Christmas hat, undocumented?
Te idea that documenting behaviour somehow prevents any threat of "—and we
cannot know what payload it might contain next time" is completely false and has
no standing. Analysing the open source code is how you deal with that.
The idea that this discriminates on locale because a user will get a beating
raises a question. Surely it is discriminating on the fact that a society is
being extremely violent without good reason. The very reason of the objection of
this bug report, in the first place. Giving someone a beating for their opinion
or even someone elses opinion is outright wrong and should have no bearing on
any discussion. I don't see why the author of this software is having his hand
forced here against his will due to politics especially when most of us agree
with the authors position.
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Do what's right,
Kevin Chadwick
