On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 03:13:14AM -0600, Chris Lawrence wrote: > On Dec 02, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > They seem to be put off by liability issues, etc. > > > > And no doubt the risk of having their idle comments paraded about on > > slashdot isn't exactly an incentive. > > It seems to me, then, that we need a debian-legal-private list. I > dunno how we'd handle subscription, etc., since obviously not all > developers are interested in -legal issues. > > Then we can invite selected people from VA (if you want to call their > disc with O'Reilly a separate distro), Corel, Stormix, whoever in to > discuss these things, without creating slashdot headlines.
You are closing development. I understand the need of a few registered-maintainers-only lists, but such Council-Of-Big-And-Important-Persons is completely against the spirit of free software. The next step will be making a corporation and monopolize GNU/Linux.
