On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 2:09 PM Michael Gratton <m...@vee.net> wrote:

> Hi Tristan,
>
> On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 14:22, Tristan Van Berkom via desktop-devel-list
> <desktop-devel-list@gnome.org> wrote:
> > Instead, by opening the door to censorship of words which are not
> > themselves inherently vulgar or foul (i.e. 'master' is not considered
> > a
> > 'swear word'), we are creating an atmosphere where people worry more
> > and more whether they can express themselves freely.
>
> This has already been covered in the original proposal under objection
> (1) "It doesn't matter". As has already been discussed, what actually
> doesn't matter is what you or I think, it is the people who have been
> affected by the language we use that matter.
> *These are the people who won't contribute to GNOME because of these terms*,
> and it is the project
> that loses out in the end.
>

Numbers please? For example how many contributors GNOME has lost last year?
Do you speak about one or two people? Hundreds people? More?


-- 
Alberts Muktupāvels
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