Re: Proposal: DNS change irc.gnome.org becomes A record and irc.gimpnet.org starts getting phased out.

[Michael Hill <mdhillca gmail com>]

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Tristan Van Berkom <tvb gnome org> wrote:

> People have common sense, they know that since we are at the zoo,
> there actually are monkeys to go see.

Tristan, your analogy should have been based on a word whose
legitimate use did *not* precede its use as an epithet. If the
original authors of the software knew the meaning of the word and
chose it anyway, who am I to excuse the name as anything better than
an unfortunate choice?

I agree with you about not getting carried away. However, in light of
the fact that the target group of the slur is one of the target groups
for GNOME, your defense seems misplaced.

Mike