Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 19, 2003 05:11 PM
I agree with this point. The two knee-jerk jerks that followed (one about Bush, and the sarcastic one about the importance of human rights) demonstrate the point.
By adding a socio-political aspect to what is otherwise a neutral offering of technical educational value, you can alienate people who would otherwise support you.
Personally I have a problem with the inclusion of anything from the UDHR because the UDHR is crap, and gives real human rights a bad name. Certainly that's just my opinion. And reasonable minds may differ on the issue. But the point is, the centre of agreement here is the usefulness of making open soure more widely available through libraries, and not the nature of human rights (or abortion, or the European Social Chapter, or War in Iraw, or George Bush's sentence structures,<nobr> <wbr></nobr>...)
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Re:It was good until.....
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 19, 2003 05:11 PMthat followed (one about Bush, and the sarcastic
one about the importance of human rights) demonstrate the point.
By adding a socio-political aspect to what is
otherwise a neutral offering of technical
educational value, you can alienate people
who would otherwise support you.
Personally I have a problem with the inclusion
of anything from the UDHR because the UDHR is
crap, and gives real human rights a bad name.
Certainly that's just my opinion. And reasonable minds may differ on the issue. But the point is,
the centre of agreement here is the usefulness
of making open soure more widely available through
libraries, and not the nature of human rights
(or abortion, or the European Social Chapter,
or War in Iraw, or George Bush's sentence structures,<nobr> <wbr></nobr>...)
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