A Call to Boycott Ubuntu? An Important Discussion Thread

Michael Haney thezorch at gmail.com
Fri Sep 25 15:40:39 BST 2009


On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Odd <iodine at runbox.no> wrote:
> 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.
>

Had I found a transcript of what he said IN FULL I could have included
it with my first email in this thread.  Otherwise, this is all we have
to go on for now ...
http://discuss.itwire.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=15480&p=54372

If this is all it was about then its likely just a case of Feminists
overreacting and making a mountain out of a mole hill, which is
something they're quite skilled at.
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