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

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Sun Nov 18 23:43:48 UTC 2012


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!

        Kevin Kofler



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