On 2003-02-22 01:20, William Palfreman <william@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Chip Morton wrote:
> > I have to second this one. I don't believe any malice was intended,
> > but I don't think Stacy fully considered others' perspectives before
> > this e-mail was sent.
>
> I think it was completely harmless, and the GPL one was quite funny.
> Dialects are dialects, and there are hundreds to choose from. Simply
> using one is never offensive to the people who speak it themselves, only
> if the *content* is insulting, and software licences are not, no matter
> how you look at it. And what is all this rubbish about elitism?
Aye. You have put in words what I was trying to think about for
several minutes this afternoon, and failed because of other, unrelated
to FreeBSD or this thread things.
I think we can tolerate a fair amount of humour on this list. No,
pardon me. `Tolerate' is a very unfitting term. We *need* jokes.
After some of the threads I've seen, humour makes my mornings just a
tiny bit brighter :-)
I mean, I've seen much more 'offensive' stuff posted here. Not that
Stacy's posts were. Putting the length of the GPL post aside (which
was probably what my 28.8 modem will call offensive any day :P) I had
a great laugh.
BTW, has anyone tried reading Slashdot! in jive? It's, uhm, in lack
of a better word `interesting'.
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