On Tuesday, 2014-06-10 at 08:14:50 -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 02:08:48PM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> >I want to say that debian LTS team are volunteers, but they are not "other"
> >than debian security team, because some of them are in both teams.

> >afaik "other" would imply that people from LTS are not in the debian
> >security team, while "rather" would not.

> "rather" in context implies that the debian security team is paid
> "rather" than being volunteers. Saying "LTS consists of a different
> set of volunteers than the debian security team" conveys what you're
> trying to say, I think.

http://thesaurus.com/browse/rather%20than

Synonyms for rather than
adv alternatively

    rather
    alternative
    preferably
    on behalf of
    alternately
    as a substitute
    in lieu
    in place of
    in preference
    on second thought

Or, shorter, what he says ;-)
Lupe Christoph

PS: I love how this slides into set theory ;-)
-- 
| The politician's syllogism:                                            |
|     We must do something                                               |
|     This is something                                                  |
|     Therefore, we must do this.                                        |


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