Most offensive thing I've seen all day

Micah J. Cowan micah at cowan.name
Thu Aug 3 23:29:14 BST 2006


On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 06:05:38PM -0400, Patrick McFarland wrote:
> On Thursday 03 August 2006 17:27, Bonilla, Alejandro wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 17:15 -0400, Patrick McFarland wrote:
> > > On Thursday 03 August 2006 16:58, Mark Reitblatt wrote:
> > > > On 8/3/06, Patrick McFarland <diablod3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > http://www.christianubuntu.com
> > > >
> > > > What exactly is so offensive about a group tailoring an open source
> > > > project to provide the programs they want? Am I missing something here?
> > > > At any rate, I highly doubt this belongs on the Ubuntu-Devel list.
> > >
> > > Its a religious group, Mark. If you're a Christian, I can see how you
> > > don't find this offensive.
> >
> > I actually find it more offensive to the fact that you are complaining
> > about it. If Anyone wants to make a Distro based on his Religion and
> > instead of the Penguin, having a picture of Jesus on boot, then what's
> > wrong with that? If they would allow a Christian Ubuntu but not a Jewish
> > Ubuntu, (or the other way around) -then- it would be offensive.
> 
> So, basically, you actually want humans to put meaningless partions between 
> themselves? Ubuntu is supposed to be for all people, not for Christians.

"Partitioning people" describes what you are currently doing.

And "all people" doesn't include "Christians"?

Next you're going to say ubuntu-women is sexist and offensive...

/me suspects it's time to pull the killfiles off the shelf.



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