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Re: political action HOWTO
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- Subject: Re: political action HOWTO
- From: Bruce Richardson <>
- Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 02:38:07 +0100
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In-Reply-To: <v03102800b533d5be2636@[63.23.140.227]>; from john@backspace.com on Mon, May 01, 2000 at 07:56:32PM -0500
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On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 07:56:32PM -0500, John Emerson wrote:
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> I'm interested in writing a HOWTO on political action and advocacy.
There is an advocacy HOWTO but it deals simply with promoting Linux as a
good and useful OS. I can't see many people who want to make use of LDP
resources objecting to that.
I *can* see people objecting to what you propose and that could cause real
problems for the LDP. I don't think the LDP should be associated with any
political line beyond "We think Linux is a good thing and here is some free
documentation for it (which we also think is a good thing)." There's a big
difference between releasing documentation under the LDP license, which is
an expression of a personal decision, and telling other people what they
should be doing. IIRC, the Advocacy HOWTO makes similar points.
As things stand, the only non-technical HOWTOs are the "humorous" ones and I
think that's how it should stay, really.
It's not that I object to your principles, just that I don't feel that this
is the right venue for that kind of campaign.
--
Bruce
If the universe were simple enough to be understood, we would be too
simple to understand it.
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