On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 07:39:43PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Russ Allbery dijo [Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 01:56:32PM -0700]: > > That's not what I'm arguing. I'm arguing that we should not take > > positions on general political matters around free software that don't > > affect us. This is for a variety of reasons:
> > * lack of competence (other organizations are better at this, I think) > Debian's people (i.e. debian-legal and so, even equiped with all the > TINLA and IANAL disclaimers) are a well regarded and quite well > informed body in this regard. Well-regarded by whom? I consider the current crop of debian-legal participants to have an average (weighted by posting frequency) legal knowledge equivalent to the folks who send debian-www letters demanding we delete evidence of their idiocy from the Internet. > > * lack of standing (why should someone care about our opinion?) > Because we are the largest Free Software project there is by many > metrics, and among the most successful by many others? (yes, label me > as subjective a person as you want ;-) ) I agree with this point, though; statements from people who *do* things always carry more weight with me than people whose primary activity is making statements. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
