Richard, I'm fairly certain these guidelines are more about not making
the audience uncomfortable when prominent speakers make sexist
remarks, or remarks critical of religion,
If the policy is clearly limited to such activities and comparable
ones, I would not object to it. I did not
It seems that your perception of my speech is very different from what
I said.
What made C# users uncomfortable was not this criticism about patents,
it was the way it was presented as an almost personal attack towards
mono developers.
It wasn't presented that way by me. I did not
On za, 2010-03-27 at 18:49 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
The proposed speaker guidelines have a serious problem. Since they
prohibit anything that makes someone uncomfortable, regardless of why,
and since criticism of one's actions tends to make many people
uncomfortable, the consequence
The proposed speaker guidelines have a serious problem. Since they
prohibit anything that makes someone uncomfortable, regardless of why,
and since criticism of one's actions tends to make many people
uncomfortable, the consequence is to prohibit serious criticism of any
practice that is followed
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org wrote:
The proposed speaker guidelines have a serious problem. Since they
prohibit anything that makes someone uncomfortable, regardless of why,
and since criticism of one's actions tends to make many people
uncomfortable
