Whatever. This is getting us nowhere. On DD I've been trying to be the peacemaker, I guess I should try it here. We now return you to your regularly scheduled flamefest.
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 03:14:17PM -0700, John Galt wrote: > > > It is comments like this from people like you that scare companies > > > away from working with Debian. Progeny is committed to doing its > > > > If they're involved in trying to undermine Debian in the process, they can > > go to Hell. Stormix and Corel made Debian-based distributions, did either > > of them get any flaming from me? I was here. They both contain non-free, > > did you hear anythiing from me? They had employees actively participate > > in the Debian process, did you hear anything from me? They proposed > > ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^ strike that, they didn't propose divisive > > GRs. Hmmmmmm: you think? > > John's proposal has NOTHING to do with Progeny, though he did propose it > there as well. John's stance against non-free is long-standing and has > been well-known from a time long before John worked for Progeny - in fact > long before Progeny existed. > > I could expect some clueless newbie making blind accusations without even > a hint of background information or fact to support them. Reading it from > someone who should know better is disappointing. > > > You know what the big difference between Corel, Stormix, and Progeny is? > How many of the people working on Corel Linux are Debian developers, > active or otherwise? Not many. Stormix? A couple more, but the obvious > examples have actually left the company for one reason or another. > Progeny Debian is being produced entirely by people involved with Debian. > We all use it, we all support it, and we all hack on it in various ways. > > How much of Storm or Corel's work has gone back into Debian? Very little. > Most of what they've done has been completely useless outside their own > distributions. From Progeny, how's dexter just for a start? That's what > Progeny does. Removing non-free from Debian? John's on his own there. > > -- <a mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Who is John Galt?</a> Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft product. -- Ferenc Mantfeld
