>>>>>>>I would not go within a mile of a project where sexual habits, opinions about sex or religious views are reason not to use existing OS work or workers.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>my 0.0002€
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>thomas
>>>>>>
>>>>>>"They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!
>>>>>>They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa
>>>>>>To the funny farm. Where life is beautiful all the time and I'll be
>>>>>>happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats and they're
>>>>>>coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!!!!"
>>>>>
>>>>>Hopefully they will find a cure for homophobia soon.
>>>>
>>>>Since I had no idea what Rick was referring to, I looked it up. In fact, Stallman said this:
>>>>
>>>>"[P]rostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography, and even incest and pedophilia ... should be legal as long as no one is coerced. They are illegal only because of prejudice and narrowmindedness.
>>>>Some rules might be called for when these acts directly affect other people's interests. For incest, contraception could be mandatory to avoid risk of inbreeding. For prostitution, a license should be required to ensure prostitutes get regular medical check-ups, and they should have training and support in insisting on use of condoms. This will be an advance in public health, compared with the situation today.
>>>>For necrophilia, it might be necessary to ask the next of kin for permission if the decedent's will did not authorize it. Necrophilia would be my second choice for what should be done with my corpse, the first being scientific or medical use. Once my dead body is no longer of any use to me, it may as well be of some use to someone. Besides, I often enjoy rhinophytonecrophilia (nasal sex with dead plants). "
>>>>
>>>>And there are some additional quotes about pedophilia. I certainly disagree with him strenuously on some of this.
>>>>
>>>>Tamar
>>>
>>>Actually I didn't look it up like you do. My reference to homophobia was based upon some of Rick's earlier messages in other threads.
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>>Understood, and if that's all it had been, I might have blasted him on it, too.
>>
>>However, since Stallman's not making money on this stuff, his personal/political views do seem irrelevant to whether to use the free software he's involved with.
>>
>>FWIW, I do try to live my values when shopping. For example, I will no longer buy anything at Chick-Fil-A, since I don't want to help its owner put money into organizations trying to limit the human rights of others. Similarly, I will not go to movies that have Tom Cruise or Mel Gibson, because I refuse to money in their pockets.
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>Curves and Hobby Lobby are a couple other companies you might want to avoid. Ownership of both is fundamentalist in the extreme and some money flows in that direction. Hobby Lobby is appealing having to go along with the ACA on the grounds that they are a religious organization. Uh, folks, you are not a religious organization, you are a chain of retail stores.

Yep, but Hobby Lobby isn't in this area. I'd never heard of them before all this stuff (as well as at least one of their store's rudeness over not carrying Hanukkah craft stuff). Oddly, though, in October, I saw them in two different cities I visited.

Didn't know Curves was a problem, but doesn't matter. We belong to a locally-owned gym.

Tamar