[Wolves] Novells Gnome?

[Kevanf1]

On 14/05/06, Simon Morris <mozrat at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 14/05/06, Kevanf1 <kevanf1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Mmmm, I don't personally know Shane but I would think that with his
> > position (Free Software Foundation) he has to be careful about even
> > voicing his 'personal' opinion on a public mailing list.  Maybe it
> > would be better asking Shane face to face at a LUG meeting.  Stuff
> > stated on a mailing list can come back to haunt you years later.
>
> Well - isn't that a rule for online debates in general regardless of
> who you are? Any of us could contribute to a discussion now with an
> impulsive remark and it could come to haunt us in 20 years when we are
> being considered for the board at ACME Corp.

Very true.  I've no doubt made some comments in the 10 years I have
been using the web/net that I would like to withdraw now.

> You either face up to that and accept that we are all learning and
> making mistakes in a global archived environment or assume a number of
> aliases and try to remain anonymous.


I'm afraid I have made some comments via an alias.  Purely because of
other nasty, vindictive fellow posters though.  Not on this list I
might add and not for at least 6 or 7 years now.  Nowadays I just
click the delete button when I feel the rage rising.

> I didn't see anything that Shane contributed to this thread as being
> provocative or controversial in any way though. I am sure members of
> the FSFE are able to voice their own opinions as well.
>

True on both counts....but I'm getting more and more paranoid in my
old age.  Go back that ten years that I mentioned earlier and nobody
would have believed it possible that the record/music companies would
be prosecuting individuals in this country for swapping a few low
quality mp3 (or the equivalent at the time) files.  You could freely
admit to having thousands on a hard drive.  Even if I had today I
wouldn't admit to it on a mailing list.  The same goes for what could
be seen as radical remarks of a political nature.  We know that
internal security services have software that monitors e-mails and
mailing lists for key word triggers - I'd have been laughed out of
town for even suggesting that 10 yrs ago - so how long before an
individual cannot even mention the word 'bomb' without having a visit
from some shadowy group at 4 in the morning?  That may sound
sensationalist but the way successive governments are curtailing more
and more of our freedoms...

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Kevan Farmer

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Cheslyn Hay
Staffordshire
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