The Great Linux Mint Political Train Wreck

By Jim on May 11th, 2009

I got an email from a reader a few days ago and he pointed me to a blog entry by the developer of Linux Mint, one of the most popular Linux distributions. I did a review of it recently and came to the conclusion that it’s pretty darn good for anybody interested in Linux on their desktop.

But the blog entry in question was red-hot in terms of its political subject matter:

Palestine Written by Clem on Sunday, May 3rd, 2009 @ 12:34 am | Main Topics

This is not the place to talk about this but I am deeply touched by what is happening over there. I feel disgust and guilt with us passively witnessing it and our money and weapons supporting it. I don’t want to use my name or this project to push my own ideas about this but I spend a lot of time working and giving away, sharing and receiving to and from a lot of people.

I’m only going to ask for one thing here. If you do not agree I kindly ask you not to use Linux Mint and not to donate money to it.

I hope for these people to be able to live decently in the future and for me not to have anything to do with the misery they’re in at the moment.

I promise not to talk about this anymore. I don’t want any money or help coming from Israel or people who support the action of their current government.

Thank you for your understanding. This is very important to me.

The page in question has been taken down so I got the comment from the Google cache version (the cached page may have changed by the time you read this column). Unfortunately the original post was deleted.

There were, at one point, around 300 posts or so when I checked the page but there are only about 156 in the cached version. Needless to say the developer’s comment drew a very partisan, very heated batch of comments.

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