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Re: [rain1 at airmail dot cc] Delete abortion joke
- From: "Ryan S. Arnold" <ryan dot arnold at gmail dot com>
- To: rms at gnu dot org
- Cc: libc-alpha <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 1 May 2018 10:52:51 -0500
- Subject: Re: [rain1 at airmail dot cc] Delete abortion joke
- References: <orin883lcl.fsf@lxoliva.fsfla.org> <E1fDLZU-00076y-KO@fencepost.gnu.org> <CAAKybw_h991qCFcLo1orG41gUOq3K-nur4mpn0ZO0Q832OhsoQ@mail.gmail.com>
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As a glibc steward, and the butt of what might be termed as "abusive
humor" in this project in the past, I won't defend keeping this joke
in place.
If this were told in a comedy club, it could be defended. In the glibc
manual (an inappropriate venue) it can't be. We really can't interpret
how this joke might be taken from any side of the political spectrum.
I've been a strong advocate of inclusiveness in glibc over the years
and don't want to alienate any contributor by making an unnecessary
(to the project) political statement.
On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 10:51 AM, Ryan S. Arnold <ryan.arnold@gmail.com> wrote:
> As a glibc steward, and the butt of what might be termed as "abusive humor"
> in this project in the past, I won't defend keeping this joke in place.
>
> If this were told in a comedy club, it could be defended. In the glibc
> manual (an inappropriate venue) it can't be. We really can't interpret how
> this joke might be taken from any side of the political spectrum. I've been
> a strong advocate of inclusiveness in glibc over the years and don't want to
> alienate any contributor by making an unnecessary (to the project) political
> statement.
>
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 10:03 PM, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
>>
>> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
>> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
>> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>>
>> The point of this joke is even more important now than it was when I
>> first wrote it. Please do not remove it.
>>
>> GNU is not a purely technical project, so the fact that this is
>> not strictly and grimly technical is not a reason to remove this.
>>
>> Please ack.
>>
>> --
>> Dr Richard Stallman
>> President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
>> Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
>> Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.
>>
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