Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 00:43 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Matej Cepl wrote:
> 
> > Dne 18/11/12 22:19, Kevin Kofler napsal(a):
> >>> Meanwhile, our trusty European punctuation-less shit-stirrer (sound
> >>> familiar, anyone?) is still saying we suck if we can't support minimal
> >>> memory installs, and we should be better than 'winbloze':
> >>>
> >>> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2003-
> December/048553.html
> >> 
> >> Since when is it acceptable on this list to direct ad-hominem attacks
> >> against an entire continent?
> > 
> > I don't think you read it correctly ... its European as an adjective
> > characterizing one human being living on our continent, not the
> > continent as whole (or all its inhabitants).
> 
> The context (e.g. the fact that the author of the Dec 2003 message is not 
> involved in the current discussion at all) clearly implies that being 
> European is somehow related to being a "punctuation-less shit-stirrer", an 
> association I object to!

No, Matej has it right. I was perhaps unsubtly suggesting that one of
the many parallels between the situation circa 2003 and the situation
circa 2012 appeared to be that, at both times, there was a person on the
list who had a tendency to post needlessly controversial stuff, without
much punctuation, who happened to be European...

(btw, though people seem to keep forgetting, *I'm* European. And Harald,
I don't live in the U.S.)
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