On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 09:21:00PM +0200, Nikos wrote:
> >> Are the ideas in these packages xenophobic?
> >
> > Heh, if we were going to reject packages with xenophobic ideas, we'd
> > lose most of the games. xgalaga, anyone?
>
> I don't agree. Xenophobia is a too unfortunate and serious subject
(I'm still speaking from my own viewpoint here. You will find that
Debian is a beast that speaks with many voices :-)
On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 09:21:09PM +0200, Nikos wrote:
> You are right, the Bible, or the collected works of Shakespeare, are
> important pieces for culture. But they have nothin
On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 09:20:44PM +0200, Nikos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard
to say:
[snip]
> > in this case it's the King James Bible, which is a
> > very useful text for a large number of people (it is, after all, the
> > most widely read book in the world).
>
> You're right, although this
>> On Mon, 07 Apr 2003 21:21:15 +0200,
>> Nikos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I typed "king james bible" in Google and hit "I'm feeling lucky". I
> was browsing the text 1 second later...
Tell me how to do that when I am answering email from a plane
32k feet up there.
Assumin
>> On Mon, 7 Apr 2003 08:50:18 -0500,
>> Brooks R Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Would you prefer the Torah, the Koran, or perhaps the
> Apocrypha? I'm sure we could get volunteers to package those as
> well.
> Hmmm?
OK. If some of these packages are large, they may have
>> On Mon, 07 Apr 2003 21:21:09 +0200,
>> Nikos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> You are right, the Bible, or the collected works of Shakespeare,
> are important pieces for culture. But they have nothing to do in an
> operating system!
Neither does fortune. Or vi. (We have emacs already)
Thus spoke Nikos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 2003-04-07 21:21:15:
> > Because someone packaged them, and someone uses (installed)
> > them. Whether it is easy to find on the web, is irrelevant, as there
> > are still people who are not connected 24/7, and prefer to install a
> > package, and read it off
On Monday 07 April 2003 12:21 pm, Nikos wrote:
> >> Are the ideas in these packages xenophobic?
> >
> > Heh, if we were going to reject packages with xenophobic ideas, we'd
> > lose most of the games. xgalaga, anyone?
>
> I don't agree. Xenophobia is a too unfortunate and serious subject to laugh
> You are right, the Bible, or the collected works of Shakespeare, are
> important pieces for culture. But they have nothing to do in an operating
> system! Why to privilege one religion or political opinion? How to
> distinguish "useful" (as David Nusinow said) or useless texts? It's simply
> I don't know about anarchism (never looked at it), but from my
> point of view, bible-kjv-text is in there because it's useful
> reference material. I would support packaging, e.g., the
> collected works of Shakespeare for the same reason. bible-kjv
> is a program for searching through bible-kj
> Are the ideas in these packages xenophobic?
I never said that, I took an excessive example in order to make my ideas
clearer.
> The anarchism package isn't
> really. Whether or not you think that Debian is an example of anarchism
> in action is irrelevant when you consider the fact that many o
> Because someone packaged them, and someone uses (installed)
> them. Whether it is easy to find on the web, is irrelevant, as there
> are still people who are not connected 24/7, and prefer to install a
> package, and read it offline.
But they are very easy to retrieve and save with every web bro
>> Are the ideas in these packages xenophobic?
>
> Heh, if we were going to reject packages with xenophobic ideas, we'd
> lose most of the games. xgalaga, anyone?
I don't agree. Xenophobia is a too unfortunate and serious subject to laugh
with it: we can't say that galaga is xenophobic, because
> Greetings,
> Would you prefer the Torah, the Koran, or perhaps the Apocrypha? I'm sure
> we could get volunteers to package those as well.
>
> Hmmm?
No, that's not the main problem. As I already said, I think such texts have
nothing to do in an operating system.
--
Nikos
| Hello,
| I don't understand why the packages anarchism, bible-kjv and
| bible-kjv-text (in section doc) are Debian packages. They are no
| technical documentation, they don't correspond (in my eyes) to
| open source's philosophy, they can be easily found on the WWW...
| Thanks for your comments a
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