[ale] politics, KDE

[Ray Knight]

Please take your anti-American rants to another list that might actually
give a flying flip about your political opinion.

On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 19:53, aaron wrote:
> 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
> 
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