[Typo3] Some feedback to TYPO3 marketeers

[Michael Scharkow]

Hi Kasper,

Kasper Skårhøj wrote:

> As long as I am a significant part of the TYPO3 community I will be so with
> all of my personality. This means my corner stays, the Install Tool
> password and imagery stays.

As long as TYPO3 is under GPL people will have the possbility to change 
the Install tool password and images if they like to. Although I 
personally spend so little time in the install tool that I don't care 
enough.

> However, skipping it completely I will not. It is very offending to me that
> someone can honestly expect me to write software without having personal
> ideas about whom it should preferably benefit and whom not. Come on! In
> that personal page of mine I go to great lengths to point out that this is
> my personal views and they probably do not apply to others in the community
> and that TYPO3 is "religiously neutral". Only an atheist who WANT to rant
> over it will do so.

Could we please stop using the various incarnations of (non-) 
religiousity for derogative statements. Why not simply say "only a 
complete prick/idiot/ignorant/troll who wants to rant over it will do 
so". Thanks.

> Religionsly neutral?
> Strictly it's not possible. Even banning religion is equal to favouring
> atheism. We are floating in atheistic propaganda in schools and media, but
> it has become so subtle that nobody notices on a daily basis.

Well, of course this is possible. Avoiding religious issues is *not* 
equal to atheism. Atheism needs to be intentionally communicated (here's 
your propaganda) just like Christianity or any other religion. It's a 
personal issue whether you find people who are simply agnostic and/or 
don't talk about religion worse then people who are religious or atheist.

> US Christians have told me that approaching Open Source communities and
> asking for help regarding other CMSs has exposed quite
> anti-christian/religion attitudes they could not accept. Based on such
> experiences I believe that TYPO3 is FAR MORE welcoming to people with other
> beliefs than christian.

How tolerant is TYPO3 to people with *no* religious beliefs?

> Darwin
> is dead. And if he wasn't he could not convince me (or any of you I would
> claim) that a 3 GB working binary (human genome) could have evolved by
> chance over millions of years unless you're on dope and don't care.
> Programmers are in the first row to see the incredible improbability of
> blind and undirected evolution. Scary implications. Another day...

Be careful with your claims! I'm, by pure chance, not on dope today and 
still disagree. What consequences does that have for me using TYPO3?

Greetings,
Michael