[GLLUG] War stuff

[Mike Brodbelt]

On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 14:19, Jason Clifford wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Steve Cobrin wrote:
> 
> > Both personally and as one of the GLLUG organisers, I fully agree with 
> > the below sentiment.
> > 
> In what respect?
> 
> Are you stating that as a GLLUG organiser you want those of us who are 
> discussing aspects of the current US/UK agression against iraq and trying 
> to arrange our involvement in any protests to stay off list or just that 
> you'd like us not to identify our political position in this respect with 
> our being Free Software advocates?
> 
> For myself I can see the sence in the latter however the former would seem 
> to indicate that only "approved" discussions are allowed which doesn't 
> seem to me a good thing.

The latter seems a sensible course of action; the former is simply a
matter of courtesy to other users of the list. There are plenty of
political groups out there for people who wish to organise
demonstrations - GLLUG members should not take stances on this list on
political issues other than those (such as copyright) which impinge
directly upon free software. There's nothing moralistic in that, I also
have strong opinions on what's currently going on - I just don't think
that this is the place to air them.

Mike.


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