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   From: brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com   
      
   On Jan 17, 2026 at 1:43:40 PM MST, ""Joel W. Crump"" wrote   
   <0wSaR.191743$H7H.3020@fx13.iad>:   
      
   > On 1/17/26 3:32 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >   
   >> So, Microsoft has some kind of Code of Conduct, then? Weren’t you   
   >> pillorying Free Software projects elsewhere for having rules against   
   >> this sort of behaviour?   
   >   
   >   
   > The more I found out about Charlie Kirk, the less surprised I was he'd   
   > been assassinated - but it doesn't justify it, nothing can.   
      
   Agreed. He was a horrible human being... but that does not excuse murder.   
      
   That is what the left generally says.   
      
   Now compare that to what the right says about Good. Her murder broke the law   
   and policy and morality, BUT, to them that is fine because Good was protesting   
   peacefully. She should not be allowed to do that.   
      
   > He wasn't   
   > some kind of imminent threat to anything.  MS here is simply trying to   
   > present a corporate culture of responsible speech, I feel bad for the   
   > person losing their job, but it's to be expected.  As for how this would   
   > relate to a FOSS project, it's already obviously an apples-and-oranges   
   > comparison, but in any case it's not a real issue, they could fire the   
   > person they could not, but what matters is doing their work, producing   
   > results for people who genuinely appreciate it instead of just paying   
   > some big company for software.  And personally, I'd like that better   
   > than being beholden to a corporation's fear of getting into anything   
   > political, as interesting as it might be to work at MS, it's just not   
   > where I fit in.   
      
      
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