Anarchism FAQ?! WTF?...

[Jonathan Jesse]

>
> On Fri, February 9, 2007 3:28 pm, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>> "Michael T. Richter" <ttmrichter at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> What is a political screed on anarchism doing in the Ubuntu
>>> repositories?
>>
>> Someone packaged it, in Debian, and it became part of Ubuntu (universe)
>> as a result of the routine sync between the two distributions.
>>
>>> Would similar packages for, say, communism, national socialism,
>>> Objectivist capitalism, libertarianism, etc. be accepted?
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> Seriously, what did you think the answer was going to be?
>>
>>
>> The problem with freedom -- and much of the free software movement, of
>> which Ubuntu is a part, is about freedom -- is that people publish ideas
>> that disagree with you.
>>
>> It may seem odd but, at the end of the day, as long as the content
>> adheres to the rules of Debian and Ubuntu there is no reason for it to
>> be excluded.
>
> Actually, personally I can't help but feel that this attitude can be
> dangerous when we are talking about pure written material, as opposed to
> programs. For instance, there may be problems where the reliability of the
> material included is at risk.
>
> If there is *no* analysis at all of material in the repository, then it
> will be a race to include your point of view, and that race will be won by
> the people with most packagers on their team!
>
> A different solution might be just to take a view about the reliability of
> a particularly comprehensive resource, like wikipedia, and ship that.
>
> If a particular package has a maintainer who is willing to accept bug
> reports on the reliability of the material, then that's a different
> matter.
>
> Matt
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Isn't that the difference between the sword-* modules which fit into the
sword program then an faq on anarchism?  Those modules which add into a
Bible program are maintained by a group of people that accept bug reports
based on errors w/ the program.
In fact those modules are a part of the ichthux-desktop metapackage that
is in universe

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Jonathan Jesse