A Call to Boycott Ubuntu? An Important Discussion Thread

Odd iodine at runbox.no
Fri Sep 25 13:43:13 BST 2009


David Gerard wrote:
> 2009/9/25 Odd <iodine at runbox.no>:
>> David Gerard wrote:
> 
>>> My thoughts? I ended up on this list because of the most prominent
>>> previous incident where the Code of Conduct proved purely decorative
>>> when it came to Canonical and sexism.
>>> While Mark Shuttleworth is undoubtedly a fine fellow, this is an
>>> example of the fish rotting from the head down.
>>> Boycotting Ubuntu is unlikely, but this shit still rankles.
> 
>> Maybe he has some experience trying to explain it to
>> women that didn't go well. Still, it was a dumb thing to say,
>> but we are allowed to screw up once in a while. It's not a
>> big deal to me.
> 
> 
> If it weren't for the slanderous emails sent to me from employees'
> Canonical email addresses about participants in last time round, I'd
> hope he'd just graciously accept the cluebatting. I still do, but that
> means I hold out less hope.

Could you elaborate about these slanderous emails?
I haven't heard about this, or maybe I missed it if you've
talked about it before.

-- 
Odd



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