MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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,
Thank you, yes, it does. It's not to me a persuasive argument for Debian being the body to issue such statements, but I understand much better now why you would prefer Debian over, say, the FSF, and indeed I don't have a good counter-argument. I appreciate the explanation. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
