On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 07:07:47PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Theodore Ts'o writes ("Re: Code of Conduct complaint about Linus's comments at DC14"):
> > More to the point, if RMS were to say something like "those people who
> > promulgate proprietary software are evil", would that violate the
> > guidelines? If so, which clause? And if not, what is different from
> > saying something like "The FSF is full of bigots.... in my opinion"?
>
> I think attacking a specific organisation is worse than attacking a
> class defined by a behaviour. But I agree that such a statement, put
> so baldly, would be troublesome.
So if Stallman were to make such a statement, would you be demanding
that Debian apologize to all software companies, or Microsoft, or
whatever?
Cheers,
- Ted
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