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The dictator in question certainly doesn't seem Benevolent to me in this case.

• Tepix 8y ago
  It's not like he is not benevolent either.
• rurban 8y ago
  He certainly is. He tries to protect the project from morons, which invaded most bigger projects which are not cultured in technical discussions anymore. Compare that to the education of doctors. They need to persist on proper terminology and are hardened in a long process. PC is absolutely counterproductive there. Many obviously did not get the reference in this paragraph, but it still relevant, as this episode showed. Abort vs kill is loaded by a long fight, hence the reference about future censorship attempts.
  • keiyakins 8y ago
    > PC is absolutely counterproductive there A. No, the terminology used by medical professionals is constantly shifting to do things like acknowledge that people with issues are still people. B. Your reasoning is presumably about confusion and lack of clarity, yes? How exactly is a reference to a law that has never been proposed serving that?
• geezerjay 8y ago
  > The dictator in question certainly doesn't seem Benevolent to me in this case. I don't see the point. RMS directs the organization and establises the policy it follows. I fail to see how a maintainer could feel entitled to dictate that policy just because he has access to the repository. That would be like a printing press janitor feeling entitled to censor what he feels a newspaper should not publish.