Re: Fedora 20 Swastika

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On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 2013-11-19 at 15:31 -0800, Richard Vickery wrote:
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> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>         On Tue, 2013-11-19 at 11:25 -0800, James Patterson wrote:
>         > Hello,
>         >
>         > I noticed the new Fedora 20 wallpaper looks like a swastika.
>         It would be
>         > great if it didn't for the final release, it would upset a
>         few people.
>         >
>         > I filed a bug here under wallpapers, but moved it to distro
>         since it's a
>         > policy decision:
>         >  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1030643
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>         FWIW, it doesn't look remotely like one to me or anyone else
>         currently
>         discussing it in #fedora-devel.
>         --
>         Adam Williamson
>         Fedora QA Community Monkey
>         IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT
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> If anything looks even remotely like anything that brings up the
> horrors of Nazi Germany, including a swastika, it REALLY should be
> removed, lest we become fodder for some really nasty kickback from
> Jewish people. This  decision to include such might encourage people
> like Bill Gates - who is also a political scientist, aside from
> abusing the public with his Microsoft stuff - fuel to kill our
> organisation - and perhaps Linux as a whole - via the courts.

There really isn't any need for alarmism. We're talking about
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/File:F20-alpha-wallpaper-wide.png .
No-one is getting sued into oblivion by Bill Gates or anyone else. Why
do so many people seem to want to default to OMG PANIC! mode these days?
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Sorry Adam, I didn't mean to sound alarmist. I just tend to think that Gates is abusively opportunistic. 
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