THE 'war on vocabulary' is sold to the general public as improving manners and mitigating potential offence. This is all fine on the surface, but there's a hidden cost because without free speech people cannot openly express an opinion about things they deem to be objectionable.

"It hopefully gets across the point that while IBM plays "speech police" (insisting that it's protecting people) in practical terms it is doing a lot of harm to the community."IBM screwing the GNU/Linux development community...

Oh shoot... can still use the word "screw"? Does that refer to the contents of utility boxes or something sexual?

Many videos have already been done and many articles written about what IBM is doing to CentOS, so we've instead chosen to focus on this satirical Web site.

IBM insists that its heart is in the right place; but that's just shallow PR that obscures gory details about its history and the present.

GNU/Linux users and Free software advocates at large ought to assess IBM by its commitment the community (many volunteers who wrote lots of code for pragmatic and altruistic reasons). If IBM is willing to bin Red Hat's projects and initiatives that give back to the same community it derived so much value from, what can we conclude about the morality of IBM?

The video above is unscripted and done in a single take. It hopefully gets across the point that while IBM plays "speech police" (insisting that it's protecting people) in practical terms it is doing a lot of harm to the community. ⬆