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Opensource game rejected from Debian for authors' social beliefs

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Why do you agree with debian's decision. (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-11-25 00:28 (#2V88)

If someone asked you to chose which of these banks you would like to do business with:
1) Chase
2) Wells Fargo
3) Vatican
4) Bank of England
5) Valartis
6) LGT
7) Raiffeisen
8) DBS
9) UOB
10) OCBC
11) SPDB

And your answer was "muh dick". Should they say "ah yes, wells fargo it is"?
Why should it be any different if you instead say "some bitch", or an analogue thereof?
(Or in this case "The bank I wish to do business with is "feminists" or "woman", I reject all your preselected options")

Since when has opensource been professional?
It is (or it was, perhaps there was a takeover of some sort) people doing things for free as a hobby in their spare time.

The fact of the matter is the program in question does what it was programmed to do:
It allows you to virtually gamble in a text console. It even includes a stockmarket.
It doesn't crash and doesn't have any known vulnerabilities.
Debian rejected it because the author's opinions are in opposition to SJWs opinions. That's it.

Re: Why do you agree with debian's decision. (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-11-25 00:33 (#2V89)

No, because for the billionth time, he's an asshole. Not for his opinions. I know a few people who firmly believe women should never work, and always defer to men. But, they are always pleasant to talk to and treat everyone with respect. If they had written a program, it would not have been rejected.

Re: Why do you agree with debian's decision. (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-11-25 03:14 (#2V8B)

So reject a program because you don't like the author.
Yep.

Bet you want ReiserFS removed from the kernel as well.
Your position is not defensible. You are a totalitarian.
The opensource movement wouldn't have gotten anywhere if
it was started today with people like you.

Re: Why do you agree with debian's decision. (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-11-25 14:20 (#2V97)

No, I wasn't saying that I agreed with the position. I was saying that is why the decision was made. And frankly, as others have pointed out there were plenty of other reasons to reject the program.

Re: Why do you agree with debian's decision. (Score: -1, Troll)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-11-26 08:59 (#2V9G)

There were zero proper reasons to reject the program. Debian packages many text console games of similar value and complexity.

The Debian developers rejected the game solely because they are feminists.

Re: Why do you agree with debian's decision. (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-11-26 13:20 (#2V9K)

Please provide evidence to support this claim?

Re: Why do you agree with debian's decision. (Score: -1)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-11-27 17:12 (#2VA3)

DFSG Compliant.
Text console game.
Same/Similar quality as boatloads of other text console games in Debian.
One of the only programs of its type in the field (text console _casino_ games).

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2014-11-27 18:42 Overrated -1 evilviper@pipedot.org

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