Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Mon, 8 Mar 2004 13:35:37 +0100, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: I'm a little unclear on how a first class free operating system can be non-free. I guess that's the central problem here. Tell me again, what hardware are you running, and what licence does your BIOS have ? I

Questions to the candidates

2004-03-08 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Mon, 8 Mar 2004 17:41:15 +0100, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: The main problem is that building hardware cost truckloads of money. That's a good thing for our next DPL to do: try to bring Debian closer to free hardware initiatives. This was already a theme of past elections

Re: keep non-free proposal

2004-03-08 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Mon, 8 Mar 2004 14:42:01 +0100, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: like the opensparc one for example. There is also a free hardware community out there, as well as free firmware people, but these are areas debian as whole, and the non-free proponent in particular, have largely been

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Mon, 8 Mar 2004 13:35:37 +0100, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: I'm a little unclear on how a first class free operating system can be non-free. I guess that's the central problem here. Tell me again, what hardware are you running, and what licence does your BIOS have ? I

Questions to the candidates

2004-03-08 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Mon, 8 Mar 2004 17:41:15 +0100, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: The main problem is that building hardware cost truckloads of money. That's a good thing for our next DPL to do: try to bring Debian closer to free hardware initiatives. This was already a theme of past elections

Re: keep non-free proposal

2004-03-04 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Sun, 29 Feb 2004 09:48:42 -0500, Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: What I want to know is: why don't you want us distributing such thing? On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 06:52:47PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: Because I consider that Debian should not be promoting non-free

Re: keep non-free proposal

2004-02-28 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Wed, 28 Jan 2004 13:43:05 -0500, Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: [A] Software which Debian distributes which is completely free will remain completely free. On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 01:24:00PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: This interpretation is a no-op. Read it again: it

Re: keep non-free proposal

2004-02-28 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Sat, 28 Feb 2004 14:44:41 -0500, Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 01:41:25PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: That may be what we're promising now, but what I would like to see the social contract state is that we are not going to distribute or promote

Re: keep non-free proposal

2004-02-28 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Sat, 28 Feb 2004 14:44:41 -0500, Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 01:41:25PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: That may be what we're promising now, but what I would like to see the social contract state is that we are not going to distribute or promote

Re: Election status

2002-04-02 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Tue, 02 Apr 2002 23:32:12 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Przebywam na urlopie do 08.04.2002 /me considers mail-bombing this email address []s! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha http://people.debian.org/~kov Debian: http://www.debian.org * http://debian-br.cipsga.org.br -- To

Re: Election status

2002-04-02 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Tue, 02 Apr 2002 23:32:12 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Przebywam na urlopie do 08.04.2002 /me considers mail-bombing this email address []s! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gustavo Noronha http://people.debian.org/~kov Debian: http://www.debian.org * http://debian-br.cipsga.org.br -- To

Re: Some questions for the candidates...

2002-03-26 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 11:51:49 + Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if that's not an official solution, that'll be integrated in apt or on the server side, that's not solved... a shell script to create diffs on people.debian.org/~kov and bring them to my machine is easy to create, but

Re: Some questions for the candidates...

2002-03-26 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 11:51:49 + Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if that's not an official solution, that'll be integrated in apt or on the server side, that's not solved... a shell script to create diffs on people.debian.org/~kov and bring them to my machine is easy to create, but

Re: Call for votes for the debian project leader election 2002

2002-03-26 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 00:06:10 -0500 Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One side affect of this is that if you only put a number next to one person's name, and leave the rest blank, your vote pretty much means nothing. If you want to select one person, and leave the rest equally, you could

Re: Some questions for the candidates...

2002-03-25 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 23:19:40 + Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 05:05:53AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: To take a fairly trivial example from -devel right now: people have been going on and on about wanting to make Packages files easier to download for ages

Re: Some questions for the candidates...

2002-03-25 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 23:19:40 + Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 05:05:53AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: To take a fairly trivial example from -devel right now: people have been going on and on about wanting to make Packages files easier to download for ages