In the news: Eric S. Raymond shifts to Ubuntu

[Peter Garrett]

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:04:57 +0800
"Michael T. Richter" <ttmrichter at gmail.com> wrote:

> There are no subtle nuances to this tripe:
> 
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>         >>> Ubuntu. "An African word meaning Humanity to others"
>         >>> .... even for the person who just said African-Americans are
>         responsible for 50% of the crimes in the US because they have
>         mostly low IQ ....

> This is character assassination, pure and simple.

These opinions expressed by ESR , (which I have read, I think on his
blog), *and*  the raising of them on this list, are distasteful to me. I
disagree strongly with both. 

Just to clarify ...

Peter




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