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I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that the consensus is that the joke is disagreeable, but that it is not an appropriate joke for the documentation. I am a sta
by RIMR 8y ago
I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that the consensus is that the joke is disagreeable, but that it is not an appropriate joke for the documentation.
I am a staunchly pro-choice, but this joke is out-of-date and out-of-place. I would personally vote for it to go.
I really don't want to see the political divide fragment the GNU/Linux community because people are determined to inject their opinions into code.
If you run a small repo and the development community agrees with political interjections in the software, then go for it. If the community doesn't like it, they can fork it.
But maybe, if the both the developers and the users of a major piece of software found on hundreds of millions of machines think your political joke should go, that's just not a hill worth dying on...
- geofft 8y agoOh yes - I was unclear about disagreeing with the joke. I don't think anyone is openly disagreeing with the politics of the joke per se, they seem to be saying that it's not meaningful technical documentation and they empathize with those who might disagree with the politics (which might be themselves or might not). So yes, I don't think there's a left/right political divide either here, or elsewhere.
- jonhendry18 8y ago"but this joke is out-of-date" It isn't out of date, it's entirely relevant today.
- knorker 8y agoSo is "US government supports governments committing atrocities on a daily basis. E.g. Saudi and Israel". That doesn't mean that this political statement belongs in the manpage for "kill".