Where to buy a Linux based desktop in Israel?
Steve Litt
slitt at troubleshooters.com
Thu May 14 07:30:50 IDT 2020
On Wed, 13 May 2020 11:05:10 +0300
Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir at cohens.org.il> wrote:
> On 13/05/2020 6:17, Steve Litt wrote:
> > The following is a
> > contemporaneous description of why:
> >
> > http://troubleshooters.com/lpm/200908/200908.htm#_The_Politics_of_Free_Software:_Pet_predjudices
> >
> > If anybody knows the location of a web resource in which the Mint
> > project completely repudiated the unfortunate words Clem LeFebre
> > placed *on the official Mint blog*, I'll change my stance.
> > Otherwise, I'll neither use nor recommend Linux Mint.
>
> See the archived Wikipedia talk page:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Linux_Mint/Archive_Israel-Palestine_Controversy
Huh? Which part of the preceding link's 20997 word pile of diatribes is
the point you're making?
> On the official blog he wrote:
> https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=775
> That is: that politics is out of the official Linux Mint blog.
And that would have been sufficient if the Mint project
hadn't deliberately rejected my suggestion.
>
> >
> > Just in case somebody here doesn't know what we're talking about,
> > the message originally posted on the official Linux Mint blog
> > included the phrase "I don’t want any money or help coming from
> > Israel or people who support the action of their current
> > government."
>
> As of 2012, an Israeli company is listed (with an Israeli flag) in
> Linux Mint's partners page:
> https://www.linuxmint.com/partners.php
Some of my best friends are Black.
(The preceding is an American idiom for a bigot who claims not to be
because he has friends in the group he's bigotted against.)
SteveT
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