Sounder mailing list etiquette and future direction

[Peter Garrett]

On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 22:27:19 -0600
"Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard at earthlink.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 17:34:29 -0500
> Michael Haney <thezorch at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > The idea of a forum for the
> > free unrestrained exchange of ideas and opinions reflects the very
> > core of the Free Libre Open Source Software movement.
> 
> Exactly.  I hope you don't mean free unrestrained exchange of ideas
> and opinions that agree with <whoevers>?  Wouldn't, "free and
> unrestrained," allow for /differences/ of opinion, too?

What we are seeing here is the distortion of "Ubuntu" to mean "don't
upset anybody"...

Unfortunately, this kind of attitude drives clueful but occasionally
abrupt people away.

> 
> >  But, allow
> > things to stay as they are is just as bad.
> 
> As bad as what?  A, "free unrestrained exchange of ideas and
> opinions?"  What's so bad about that?  I thought that was what we were
> all here for to begin with.  i know it is what brought me here.
> 

Anything that treads on anyone's toes is being seen as not in the
spirit of the Code of Conduct.

Add me to the list of those who think that this is precious, and
constitutes a form of "reverse elitism".

Peter

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