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1. Bradley M. Kuhn

   We need 0-tolerance of sexism in FLOSS community.♻@tieguy http://ur1.ca/3voq (esp. http://ur1.ca/3vov ) cf:@selenamarie's http://ur1.ca/3vot

   Friday, 01-May-09 19:29:53 UTC from xmpp
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   • Noah Meyerhans

     @bkuhn I'm not sure that FLOSS can take a position on sexism. Read the thread on debian-project on a similar issue: http://urli.ca/anm

     Friday, 01-May-09 19:41:55 UTC
   • Noah Meyerhans

     @bkuhn I agree that FLOSS should not encourage discrimination, but it may be perfectly acceptable in some cultures. FLOSS is cross-cultural

     Friday, 01-May-09 19:42:55 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Noah Meyerhans

     @noahm, I am not a cultural relativist. I believe some things are so harmful to people they should not be tolerated by any just community.

     Friday, 01-May-09 20:34:59 UTC
   • Noah Meyerhans

     @bkuhn Sure. But that's my point. Some don't share you belief, or you idea of what consitutes a "just community".

     Friday, 01-May-09 20:41:26 UTC
   • Eduardo de Oliveira Padoan

     @bkuhn The acknowledgment that cultures are different (and that it is good!) does not imply that everything in every culture is acceptable.

     Friday, 01-May-09 20:41:58 UTC
   • Noah Meyerhans

     @bkuhn As the Debian thread shows, age discrimination is quite acceptable in parts of Europe. Yet we tolerate Europeans in FLOSS.

     Friday, 01-May-09 20:42:22 UTC