Fedora 20 Swastika

Dennis Jacobfeuerborn dennisml at conversis.de
Wed Nov 20 12:36:48 UTC 2013


On 20.11.2013 00:35, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-11-19 at 15:31 -0800, Richard Vickery wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com>
>> wrote:
>>          On Tue, 2013-11-19 at 11:25 -0800, James Patterson wrote:
>>          > Hello,
>>          >
>>          > I noticed the new Fedora 20 wallpaper looks like a swastika.
>>          It would be
>>          > great if it didn't for the final release, it would upset a
>>          few people.
>>          >
>>          > I filed a bug here under wallpapers, but moved it to distro
>>          since it's a
>>          > policy decision:
>>          >  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1030643
>>
>>
>>          FWIW, it doesn't look remotely like one to me or anyone else
>>          currently
>>          discussing it in #fedora-devel.
>>          --
>>          Adam Williamson
>>          Fedora QA Community Monkey
>>          IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT
>>          happyassassin . net
>>          http://www.happyassassin.net
>>
>>
>> If anything looks even remotely like anything that brings up the
>> horrors of Nazi Germany, including a swastika, it REALLY should be
>> removed, lest we become fodder for some really nasty kickback from
>> Jewish people. This  decision to include such might encourage people
>> like Bill Gates - who is also a political scientist, aside from
>> abusing the public with his Microsoft stuff - fuel to kill our
>> organisation - and perhaps Linux as a whole - via the courts.
>
> There really isn't any need for alarmism. We're talking about
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/File:F20-alpha-wallpaper-wide.png .
> No-one is getting sued into oblivion by Bill Gates or anyone else. Why
> do so many people seem to want to default to OMG PANIC! mode these days?
>

Probably related to this:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/concern_troll

Regards,
   Dennis


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