That's fine. I believe that people should never be afraid to express their political views.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.
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.
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 don't want any money or help coming from Israel or people who support the action of their current government.
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.