[ale] politics, KDE

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Wed Sep 10 18:29:41 EDT 2003


Hitler.

Jonathan Rickman wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 September 2003 00:30, Chris Ricker wrote:
> 
> 
>>s_aboutData->addCredit("United States Army", I18N_NOOP("Preserving the
>>freedom that made this software possible"));
> 
> 
> Well, first of all, this is wrong. Everyone knows that the USMC preserves 
> freedom while the Army sits around eating cake with the civilians. :)
> 
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> No political statements they disagree with. The entire KDE home page was 
> recently used for a political statement.
> 

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