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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE-1.1.2: Comments on all-new Wallpapers
From:       Matthias Elter <me () main-echo ! net>
Date:       1999-09-06 18:43:02
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On Mon, 06 Sep 1999, Robert Williams wrote:
> Matthias Elter wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 06 Sep 1999, Robert Williams wrote:
> > > "Ewald R. de Wit" wrote:
> > >
> > > > dep (dep@westnet.com) wrote:
> > > > > it's not about freedom. it's about being taken seriously.
> > > >
> > > > Do you really want to be taken seriously by people who are offended
> > > > by a photo of a hemp plant?
> > > >
> > > > KDE will be taken seriously because of it's technical merit and not
> > > > because of it's compliance to American policically correct window
> > > > dressing.
> > > >
> > > > It's a bit like when Linus decided to leave the foul language in
> > > > the linux source tree.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Yes but you don't end up in jail for life for using foul language
> > > also...
> >
> > So you end up in jail for including a image showing a plant that looks like a
> > hash plant but is not in the US? Sorry, but perhaps we should replace it with a
> > image showing a machine gun and release a US version as somebody already
> > suggested.
> 
> This anti-American stuff is getting out of hand guys.   No wonder the American
> press keeps saying KDE is a euro product...   the anti american is so thick in
> here.

I'm _not_ anti-American, most of my relatives live there. Why do you consider me
anti-American if I don't agree with some American gun laws or can't see a point
in considering some plant looking similar to a hash plant political incorrent.

Greetings, Matthias

-- 
Matthias Elter
me@kde.org / me@main-echo.net
KDE developer

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