Alexandre Oliva wrote:
On Jul 28, 2008, Andrew Haley aph@redhat.com wrote:
It surely was on-topic here to talk about whether unfree binary blobs should be included in Fedora.
+1
I wonder why nobody's complaining about all this traffic on this non-technical thread on a list that people complained was supposed to be restricted to technical content. Heck, why was the discussion even started here? Double standards, as usual?
Someone probably will...
Do we really want to say that if any ethical question arises during discussion on Fedora lists, people may not address it?
Seems like that's the general feeling of those who demand silence about it.
Some people really don't want to see any discussion of the political/ ethical issues around free software, I suppose, and what it banished to a list they don't have to read.
More likely, however, is that people are using Thunderbird. Thunderbird doesn't by default have a "Delete Thread" button, so people are forced to select all the messages of a huge thread and delete them. Now you might argue that any mailer without a "Delete Thread" button simply isn't fit for purpose, and I would find it hard to argue with you, but that's the fact.
Andrew.