Re: political topic [sorry]

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Fernando Herrera wrote:

> Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 08:53:47AM +0100, Mathieu Lacage escribió:
>
>  
>
> > While I do understand the reason why this has been put on the front
> > page, it feels to me the Gnome project should avoid such direct
> > references to events which do not fall within the scope of issues
> > related to free software.
> >    
> ...
>
> 	In the other hand, the statement on the web site is clearly 
> no political, and cannot offense anyone, neither the killers. So I
> cannot see any problem with it.
>  
I do think there is a political as well as personal dimension to the 
topic, and I tend to agree with Mathieu.  If community members lost 
lives or families as a result, some recognition may be appropriate, but 
I think we should be cautious about the personal dimension on the 
www.gnome.org "front page".

- Bill