Freedom (Re: Most offensive thing I've seen all day)

[Daniel]

On 8/3/06, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 05:15:55PM -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.
> >
> > And if it doesnt belong on the Ubuntu-Devel list, then it belongs on the
> > Ubuntu-Legal list. I cannot see how Ubuntu would allow such use of the
> name
> > to, basically, promote a religion. This goes entirely against what
> Ubuntu is
> > for.
>
> Quite the contrary, in fact.  One of the core values of Ubuntu is that it
> is
> available to everyone, without restriction on how they use it.  That is an
> important part of the freedom provided by "free software".
>
> Religious organizations, governments, charities and stamp collecting clubs
> are all welcome and encouraged to adopt Ubuntu and to customize it to meet
> their needs, regardless of whether they share an ideology with other
> Ubuntu
> users.  This is what it's all about.
>
> --
> - mdz
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Only that it wouldn't be so easy if it was Jihadbuntu, with a nice pic of
the twin towers colapsing as the default wallpaper. Would it?
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