Stop Abusing SourceForge, Notepad++
Development, Misc April 16th, 2008
I was really shocked and offended when one of friends showed me the “Boycott Beijing 2008″ in Notepad++’s homepage. I respect the developer’s free speech, though I think it is totally wrong:
If you care about the human right in Tibet, come to Tibet and take a look. Do you remember how the media duped the US publicity about the Iraq war?
If you want to boycott the Chinese government with your poisoned prejudice, stop buying anything made in China like my boycott to French products, and leave the Olympic Games alone, the biggest dream for all the people over the world to compete with sports instead of politics.
Regardless, SourceForge is a platform to promote open source movement, not your personal opinion. If you posted in your personal blog, I won’t even bother to demonstrate my disregard at all. Please stop abusing SourceForge, Notepad++.
中华民族是一个伟大的民族，我相信中国有信心也有能力办好2008年
的奥运。
Hi, Kunxi!
Please update alsa-guide and vdr-guide if you have time.
http://www.gentoo-cn.org/trads/
http://groups.google.com/group/gentoo-china/msg/32a5aa31f1fee9e0
BTW, which email do you use most?
My program has sent several reminder email to bookstack@gmail.com. It seems that they didn’t arrive at your mailbox.
Hi,
Just to say that I totally agree with you.
- Software development and politics should not be “merged” like the author of Notepad++ does on its homepage.
- Furthermore, I have great doubts on what US and European media are telling us about the “Tibet problem”, “human rights”, “olympics boycott”, etc. They obviously don’t give us all “opinions” (always blaming China) ; nowadays news looks much like propaganda (and not only on this topic), than “real” and “complete” information.
The “cherry on the cake” of this message, is that I’m french ;-)
I think the media is more profit-oriented. They hold the provocative opinions to get attention to sell their commercials.