Anarchism FAQ?! WTF?...

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 12:08:56PM +0000, chombee wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 15:56 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > I don't think that the political position of this document is as much of an
> > issue as the question of whether it's appropriate to distribute large
> > documents, of no direct relevance to Ubuntu, in the form of Ubuntu packages
> > simply for the sake of making them easy to install.  Works of literature,
> > encyclopaedic content, etc. are subject to the same debate.
> > 
> > There was a similar question in Debian some time ago, where I believe this
> > same package was used as an example.
> 
> Maybe someone already said this but: doesn't the content of the
> anarchist faq actually have some relevance to ubuntu and debian? We're
> not an explicitly anarchist project but to me at least it seems that our
> ways of doing things have a lot in common with anarchist principles and
> practise. Open meetings, consensus decision making, anyone can
> participate but no one is coerced into participating, etc. Much more
> than we have in common with the usual capitalist way of running a
> project. I think it is relevant.

I think the above analogy is sufficiently tenuous that it doesn't justify
the inclusion of such a document based on relevance to the project.  Ubuntu
is likely to have something in common with almost any social or political
movement, including religion, but rarely any practical relevance to our
mission.

And, by the way, this argument was more than fully explored in the Debian
thread I referenced. ;-)

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 - mdz