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Re: no to war in Ukraine
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Christopher Dimech |
Subject: |
Re: no to war in Ukraine |
Date: |
Sun, 27 Feb 2022 10:51:49 +0100 |
----- Christopher Dimech
Administrator General - Naiad Informatics - Gnu Project
Society has become too quick to pass judgement and declare someone
Persona Non-Grata, the most extreme form of censure a country can
bestow.
In a new era of destructive authoritarianism, I support Richard
Stallman. Times of great crisis are also times of great
opportunity. I call upon you to make this struggle yours as well !
https://stallmansupport.org/
https://www.fsf.org/ https://www.gnu.org/
> Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2022 at 8:53 PM
> From: "Alexandre Garreau" <galex-713@galex-713.eu>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, "Po Lu" <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: no to war in Ukraine
>
> Le dimanĉo, 27-a de februaro 2022, 9-a horo kaj 5:42 CET Po Lu a écrit :
> > Alexandre Garreau <galex-713@galex-713.eu> writes:
> > > So I propose to abandon the topic, unless some webmasters or
> > > maintainers have desire to follow the consensual and comforting trend
> > > of putting their flag anywhere in sign of support. That’d be in line
> > > with our ideas of freedom.
> >
> > The GNU project doesn't have any political opinions aside from that of
> > the free software movement. I hope that includes not taking sides on
> > the conflict in the Ukraine, or otherwise I will not be able to continue
> > working on Emacs.
>
> Why require so hardly such neutrality? I mean other projects did so by the
> past (like
> supporting uyghurs or dunno, other geopolitical stuff) and that doesn’t stop
> from software
> freedom or contribution… to me that’s alike people stating anything personal
> (like «i like
> pasta», or dunno) or humor or what in projects: at least it makes it
> (nonpermanently) more
> personal and identifiable, maybe it even can increases contribution.
The Chinese Communist Party is avoiding criticizing Russia's invasion of
Ukraine. It is
therefore unsurprising to encounter such propaganda here.
> > Also, why is this on help-gnu-emacs, instead of emacs-tangents or some
> > other more appropriate mailing list?
>
> very good question, although unfortunately your statement, being more policy
> targetted, is
> likely more appropriated here :'D
>
- Re: no to war in Ukraine, (continued)
Re: no to war in Ukraine, Alexandre Garreau, 2022/02/27
Re: no to war in Ukraine, Alexandre Garreau, 2022/02/27
Re: no to war in Ukraine,
Christopher Dimech <=
Re: no to war in Ukraine, Alexandre Garreau, 2022/02/27
Re: no to war in Ukraine, Christopher Dimech, 2022/02/27
Re: no to war in Ukraine, Po Lu, 2022/02/27
Re: no to war in Ukraine, Christopher Dimech, 2022/02/27
Re: no to war in Ukraine, Po Lu, 2022/02/27
Re: no to war in Ukraine, Christopher Dimech, 2022/02/27
Re: no to war in Ukraine, Alexandre Garreau, 2022/02/27
Re: no to war in Ukraine, Christopher Dimech, 2022/02/27
Re: no to war in Ukraine, Po Lu, 2022/02/27
Re: no to war in Ukraine, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/02/27