_Very_ well said, Sriram. Let's hope that Mr. Stallman can hear you where he's proven unable to hear me.
__ Sent from my Steve-Phone On Jun 26, 2010, at 10:20 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me> wrote: > > > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 7:09 AM, Richard Stallman <r...@gnu.org> wrote: > I am proud of my Saint IGNUcius routine. Thousands of people have > laughed at it. The routine makes fun of people, especially Emacs > users, but does not insult or attack anyone, not even Emacs users. It > > > Hi Richard, > > Like all things our community continues to evolve and what might be great > back in the good ol days might not be now. Historically, women and > minorities have not had a large role in free software community. So that > joke might have worked with a lot of people back then but not so much now. > Since you're a celebrity people are willing to probably overlook such things > that might normally offend them. Of course the opposite is true as well, > because you're a celebrity people might be even more offended depending on > how sensitive they feel your role is. > > People's view of sex around this globe is pretty diverse so it is always a > minefield when you combine anything with sex in a diversified environment. > If you're going to go there, I'd take a good look at your audience. :-) > > sri > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-list mailing list > foundation-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
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