Re: Goodbye

Frans de Boer <frans@xxxxxxxxxx> · Sat, 4 Jul 2020 21:13:31 +0200



    On 03-07-2020 14:51, Salz, Rich via
      openssl-users wrote:

    
              topic: Change
                some words by accepting PR#12089
            
          
              4
                against, 3 for, no absensions
            
          
            I am at a loss for words.
             
            I can’t contribute to a project that
              feels this way.  The OMC (list at [1], a picture of some
              of them at [2] although it includes non-OMC members) is,
              in my view, on the wrong side of history. I hope that in
              time, the four men who voted against it will develop more
              – what, empathy? – and that sometime in the future this PR
              [3], or similar, will be merged.  Until then, I will do
              what I have to in order to insure that Akamai’s needs for
              FIPS are met and once 3.0 is released, I will be fully
              applying my modest talents elsewhere.
             
            I have closed all non-FIPS PR’s, and as
              soon as I see this message in my inbox, I will unsubscribe
              from this list. I can be reached as rsalz at akamai.com.
             
            [1] https://www.openssl.org/community/omc.html
            [2] 
https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2019/05/23/f2f-committers-day/
            [3] 
                https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/12089
             
          
    What is next, attack the jing/jang colors or renaming the night
      from black to colorless?
    I think this black/white or master/slave thing is blowing things
      out of proportion.

      Humans have all kind of colors, including colorless and white. And
      when I think of master/slave, it is just a principle - something
      is controlling something else. That there was a period where white
      people controlled the fate of "black" people is a colorless period
      in human history. Which should not be forgotten, but remembered as
      a period with lots of wrong doing to other human beings. 

    
    I understand that white people should not talk about "negros" or
      the like, but colorless people think they can still us this awful
      word. Now, who is dictating who? Don't do/say things you would not
      have it from others to yourself.
    Black is not negative by definition, it is what your mind
      associate it with.
    --- Frans.

    
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