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Palestine Written by Clem on Sunday, May 3rd, 2009 @ 12:34 am | Main Topics

This is not the place to talk about this but I am deeply touched by what is happening over there. I feel disgust and guilt with us passively witnessing it and our money and weapons supporting it. I don't want to use my name or this project to push my own ideas about this but I spend a lot of time working and giving away, sharing and receiving to and from a lot of people.

That's fine. I believe that people should never be afraid to express their political views.

But I have a problem with what he said next...

I'm only going to ask for one thing here. If you do not agree I kindly ask you not to use Linux Mint and not to donate money to it.

I don't want any money or help coming from Israel or people who support the action of their current government.

This completely goes against the spirit of free software. I know he says he's just "asking", but would he really like to control who uses a program and who contributes to it based on their political beliefs and nationality?

I guess I shouldn't be so surprised that this developer would write this since he also thinks it's a great idea to have a distro that promotes to the greatest degree possible every proprietary piece of software.