[ale] politics, KDE

[aaron]

Considering that the U.S. has been the leading death merchant to the world for 
more than 2 decades, most often as the supplier of weapons for hated, vicious 
dictators like Sadam Hussein, and adding that our United States Army is now 
being used as a tool of imperialist invasion to plunder the oil of foreign 
nations who pose no legitimate threat to our country, the statement goes 
beyond disgustingly arrogant to become a blatant, ludicrous lie. KDE did the 
right thing entirely.

KDE's exceptional integrity might even get me to switch from Gnome! ;-)

peace
(is patriotism)
aaron



On Wednesday 10 September 2003 00:30, Chris Ricker wrote:
> Here's a political post that's actually on-topic (for once! ;-)
> 
> This may be old news, but I just ran across the link:
> 
> <http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/02/1930234&mode=thread&tid=51>
> 
> while reading Debian Weekly News. Apparently an author of a few KDE apps
> (kaboodle being the most well-known) recently added the following code to
> his apps:
> 
> s_aboutData->addCredit("United States Army", I18N_NOOP("Preserving the 
> freedom that made this software possible"));
> 
> KDE asked him to remove it per KDE no-political-statements policies, he
> refused, KDE removed it, and he pulled his apps from KDE. They're still
> available on his home page <http://www.hakubi.us/>.... Browsing the KDE CVS
> web verifies that at least kaboodle is currently removed from KDE, though.
> 
> later,
> chris