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Debian developer Josselin Mouette has had his privileges of posting to the announcement mailing list for developers withdrawn, following an offensive post to the list in November.
Debian Project Leader Steve McIntyre told iTWire that after Mouette's "abuse of the ability to post to the d-d-a mailing list, I asked our mailing list administrators to remove that privilege for in future."
Following the post on November 23, at least two Debian women developers indicated they were reconsidering their participation in GNU/Linux project.
One of them, Miriam Ruiz, made no secret of her disgust with what she termed a sexist post, "stereotyping and reducing women to the state of sexual objects ('by leading chicks directly to your home', 'we enable people to claim new sex slaves'). Some other social groups were involved in the joke too, anyway ('If you are goth, transsexual, female or simply metrosexual')."
McIntyre said; "Joss is, unfortunately, rather fond of posting his own brand of 'humour' when he wants to make a point, and in this case his post was both ridiculously off-topic and juvenile.
"Quite a number of people took exception to the content of his message, as you've probably seen from the following discussions. I don't believe he was actually trying to be *directly* offensive in what he wrote, but his judgement is clearly not the best."
Debian has more than a thousand developers who produce a top-quality
GNU/Linux distribution. Begun in 1993, the project is expected to
release version 5.0, known as Lenny, soon.
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