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Re: Debian + KDE disk

On 30 Oct 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote:

> 	Gandhi proved the validity of boycott as a tool for effecting
>  change. You may not like it, but do not say it does not work, without
>  being prepared to defend the statement.

Gandhi used the boycott as a last resort against a violent regime.

Otherwise he was very cautious of respecting the freedom of other people
to determine by themselves how to do things. He was willing to suffer
himself rather than inflict suffering on others. He insisted on building
coalitions between different ethnic groups in India by sacrificing
quite a bit of his own agenda rather than alienating people.

> 	Sorry, I do not buy this. Let us promote something
>  undesirable, so that one day they may like us enough to change is a
>  bad idea (oh, exceptions exist, but I don't think this is an
>  exception). 

Life is not that black and white as you paint it to be. Often you have to
go along with something that is not so desirable in order to attain a
higher goal. Things can be fixed and are usually changed on the way to
that goal. Having a decent Desktop environment for Linux is very important
for the success of Linux as a whole. Splitting hairs and "boycotting"
other Linux development projects is destructive. The license of qt has
already come quite a long way AFAIK.


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