On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 17:54, Jozsef <<a href="mailto:jzfk9@aol.com">jzfk9@aol.com</a>> wrote: <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:56:56 +0400, Andrew Farris <<a href="mailto:flyindragon1@aol.com">flyindragon1@aol.com</a>> wrote: > On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 19:55 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> One of the developers of Linux Mint personally insulted me and my >> nation. He also specifically asked that we do not use Linux Mint. I >> really don't know why he releases his software under the GPL, then, >> but in any case I will respect his wishes and not use his software. >> Nor do I recommend it to others. > > Just out of curiosity, I'd like to know what happened, ad I've recently > been considering using Mint, but I dont want to get involved with a > community that likes to ostracize users (thats what MS is for). If you'd > prefer, you can email me off-list to continue that particular > discussion... and if you don't want to, that's also fine. Let me know. > </blockquote></div> When you say insulted your nation, do you mean to say he said something racist, or something more like "Hey Australia, your last Prime Minister sucked. What were you thinking" - both are insulting, one would be outrageous, the other would make me roll my eyes and say "don't look at me, I did my bit". This is less about ostracising users/equating Mint with MS and more about racism, to my mind. cheers L. -- The essence of a rant, in fact, is that the ranter has no idea how to fix the thing being ranted about. - Clay Shirky