On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 22:57 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > GNOME is People. Do you have any evidence that the Moroccan *people* > are opposed to the values GNOME stands for? > > I think the Moroccan *people* are not the issue. > > "Those people have an oppressing > regime, ignore them" is not a really compelling idea to me. > > If the purpose of holding GUADEC in any given place were paying > attention to the people who live there, that would be a valid > response. However, the purpose of GUADEC is for GNOME developers to > meet. I don't think that the response relates to that.
One of the deciding factors when considering GUADEC bids is that which user community can better use a boost. So, I wouldn't say that paying attention to local people is not one of the goals of GUADEC. > Political endorsement of the government of the country where GUADEC is > held is not its purpose either, and I would not suggest choosing the > place to hold it by comparing the laws or policies of various European > countries. (Thanks to the EU, they are all bad in the areas that most > directly relate to us.) > > But there are some situations where you cannot ignore politics. > Recall how people ridiculed the holding of the WSIS conference in > Tunisia, a country that imprisons people for what they say on the > Internet. Morocco may be a similar case -- I am not sure. Originally coming from a country that definitely fits that bill too, I don't appreciate being exclusive to people based on their government. Moreover, where do you set the limit? What about China for example? We are having a GNOME.Asia Summit there this year... Did boycotting ever solved any problem BTW? -- behdad http://behdad.org/ "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
