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The main justification for why it shouldn't be there is that it was offensive. The idea that software should not be political is, in fact, itself just as offens
by makomk 9y ago
The main justification for why it shouldn't be there is that it was offensive. The idea that software should not be political is, in fact, itself just as offensive to the community of campaigners who've joined the calls to have this removed as this joke is. The last big controversy I saw was the entire console jailbreaking community being declared a bunch of bigots because someone mocked the idea that code could have views on LGBTQ rights.
- geofft 9y ago> The main justification for why it shouldn't be there is that it was offensive. This is simply untrue; you can look at the patch's commit message and the review thread. The primary justification was that it wasn't appropriate, and the secondary one is that it wasn't actually funny and was tasteless. Nobody said "offensive". You can read the thread yourself. https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-04/msg00595.html https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-04/msg00595.html (The April history shows the conversation between maintainers regarding the patch itself; if you want to see RMS' reply, go to the May index. RMS and Alexandre Oliva, the two people defending the joke, brought up the concept of "offense", and people repeatedly say in reply that they're not offended. Oliva later says he's offended by other people in the discussion.) Of course, you're also welcome to believe that everyone who disagrees with you must be offended; you're entitled to your opinions.