<quote who="Philip Van Hoof"> > In an opensource setting, we should CRUSH political bullshit and overthrow > it with technical superiority. We are by the way NOT doing that, and in > stead failing TECHNICALLY at the exact same POLITICAL problems companies > are also facing.
Philip, Firstly, what we are doing (Free Software) is *inherently* political, and in many ways hasn't been technically superior for a long time. Do we give up? Absolutely not. Secondly, there are lots of interests involved in what we do, and sometimes they are competing interests (competing - and yet collaborating). You can't just make simplistic statements like "CRUSH political bullshit" and expect it to actually mean anything. It's just another way to dismiss people's entirely valid points of view. We can't do that. There are hard choices to be made here, some of which may exclude members of our community. These choices may not have such import to you, but please don't disregard or disrespect the other points of view in our community. Thanks, - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ "People who paid for bug fixes in the 3c501 driver also bought MacIIfx support contracts..." - Alan Cox _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
