On Saturday 29 July 2006 00:42, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jul 28, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "innovation" is the industy's current buzzword. Doing things well even > > if someone else had a similar idea before will outlive it. > > We used to take pride in inventing stuff like update-alternatives which > solve long-time problems. > > > Or do you really think that udev is a useless project? After all, all > > the innovation was done in devfs and hotplug. > > The innovation in udev (with HAL, new kernel features and other stuff) > is allowing implementing new features which used to not be possible or > required very complex hacks. > There is a middle ground between useless and innovative, BTW.
Could you please give your definition for `innovation' ? (If it is about to distribute more and more non-free stuff, then I'm glad we have different definitions for innovation.) What do you think Debian should innovate ? -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]