Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] I'm arguing that we should not take > positions on general political matters around free software that don't > affect us. [...]
The Mozilla Foundation and Corporation approaches to trademarks have affected us repeatedly in the past. There are also other examples which have affected us, such as ion3 and probably others if anyone wants to go dig around in the archives. So that part of the argument doesn't seem relevant here. > >> [...] The individual members of Debian are quite capable of joining > >> multiple organizations, including ones who specialize in making > >> statements about free software as a concept and tackling issues such as > >> this one. [...] > > > > Care to name some? > > The FSF is an obvious example. Most individual members of the Debian project cannot join the FSF. The FSF offers a fundraising campaign called "associate membership" but that is not joining in anything similar to the debian project. (I think a few DDs are full members of FSF, but it's not generally true.) So, no alternative organisations have been named. The Debian project is one of very few groups where ordinary free software developers can issue (draft and decide) such a statement about what's affected their project and users. Hope that explains, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop builder for a small worker cooperative http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ (Notice http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html) tel:+44-844-4437-237 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
