A Call to Boycott Ubuntu? An Important Discussion Thread

[Chan Chung Hang Christopher]

Fred Roller wrote:
> Michael Haney wrote:
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>> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Odd <iodine at runbox.no> wrote:
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>>> David Gerard wrote:
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>>>> 2009/9/25 Odd <iodine at runbox.no>:
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>>>>> David Gerard wrote:
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>>>>>> 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.
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>>>>> 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.
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>>>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>> 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
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>> 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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> A google search of "Mark Shuttleworth speech" has this blogger in the 
> top five of six spots
> on how she jumped the gun.  A transcript is still elusive.
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Please post this on Slashdot. >:-D