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The reason I've been giving my time to Snitz (for over 3 years) has been my ideals. For me, the Internationalized Snitz is an excellent tool for communication between cultures, and communication is the only necessary means for conflict resolution. Internationalized Snitz could also used to support diminishing cultures, languages and save them from being wiped out by the English language and/or other cultural effects like other countries or globalism. Unfortunately, latest Snitz version is far away from this ideals, so v4 is important.
I also believe, the war against Iraq is an international crime and I stated similar ideas a couple of times in the topic in the community discussions forum.
Snitz is mainly US based and the political tendency of the copyright owners who are currently running the site proved to be pro-war. I did continue my tasks for another couple of weeks for the sake of my ideals, but today, war related topics got locked. In my opinion this is against the right of free-speech, if not censorship.
People say that "there are other places to talk about these issues", "Snitz is about creating forum software", "the rules will be put by those running the site".
These are absolutely wrong, at least in my case/in my opinion. Snitz is just a tool for me to achieve my ideals, the only reason I worked here was my ideals I described above. If this is going to be an international software, it must be kept independent of cultural effects (such as religious wording in readme, some culture specific icons etc) and must be open to all kinds of ideas. This is the place I spent my major time, it was my "home" on the Internet. If I cannot speak freely in my "home", then I have to leave, otherwise I cannot sleep and I cannot look into the mirror.
Providing an internationalized forum is still an important task, and I *hope* Snitz will continue following the steps. Currently v4b04 needs some more steps related to multi-language e-mail support, a last check of existing language variables and delete unused ones, but except these it is ready to be released. I'll pass it to the Dev-Team as is.
I hereby use my right not to support this pro-war website and resign from my tasks (Dev-Team member, Internationalization Moderator and main developer for v4) at Snitz Forums 2000 (?) as of March 31st, 2003.
I specifically want to thank the Internationalization team working with me on the alpha site. I also thank to anyone who helped me around here. You've been great! And, sorry for not being able to finish my tasks...
I'll spend my time (which is quite valuable for me) for a better cause.
Good Bye & Peace!
Bülent Özden
Computer Engineer (MSc)
Ex-Internationalization Moderator
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HuwR
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Posted - 31 March 2003 : 04:08:32
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Originally posted by bozden
The reason I've been giving my time to Snitz (for over 3 years) has been my ideals. For me, the Internationalized Snitz is an excellent tool for communication between cultures, and communication is the only necessary means for conflict resolution. Internationalized Snitz could also used to support diminishing cultures, languages and save them from being wiped out by the English language and/or other cultural effects like other countries or globalism. Unfortunately, latest Snitz version is far away from this ideals, so v4 is important.
I don't think anyone would disagree with you on this, and your efforts are very appreciated.
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I also believe, the war against Iraq is an international crime and I stated similar ideas a couple of times in the topic in the community discussions forum.
So what ! what has this to do with Snitz. Are you resigning because you do not agree with war or because I locked the topic ?
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Snitz is mainly US based and the political tendency of the copyright owners who are currently running the site proved to be pro-war. I did continue my tasks for another couple of weeks for the sake of my ideals, but today, war related topics got locked. In my opinion this is against the right of free-speech, if not censorship.
You are totally wrong on this point, 2 of the copyright holders are American, that is it, the forum is based in the UK and the other 2 copyright holders are Dutch and English.
The Topic was lock by ME because it was no longer continuing in a civil and educated way because a few people were using for other purposes which will not be tolerated. It has nothing to do with censorship or freedom of speech.
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People say that "there are other places to talk about these issues", "Snitz is about creating forum software", "the rules will be put by those running the site".
These are absolutely wrong, at least in my case/in my opinion. Snitz is just a tool for me to achieve my ideals,
That is a very one sided egotistical viewpoint, Snitz is a tool for EVERYONE, not just for you to achieve your ideals, that is not why most pople are here, they are here to help other people not themselves.
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kinds of ideas. This is the place I spent my major time, it was my "home" on the Internet. If I cannot speak freely in my "home", then I have to leave, otherwise I cannot sleep and I cannot look into the mirror.
At least you are able to do so, many many people are not.
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