Hi, On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 11:17:59AM +0100, Garreau, Alexandre wrote:
> The GNU system is aimed to free users. And in my humble opinion it > could better than other systems (the only really democratically > developped, development-diffused and upstream distro today is Debian, > and ???as Mozilla Firefox??? it???s not always making the best > choices: see GNOME3, systemd???). This is rather off-topic; but as it's such a common misconception, I'd like to point out that democracy is only important for your freedom in domains where everyone *has* to live with the government's decisions. In the Free Software world on the other hand, it is generally quite feasible simply to move elsewhere if you don't like some project's decisions -- so there is no need for you to have an obligatory say in any particular project. Also note that Debian is not actually democratic in any meaningful way: voting is limited to the select group of Debian Developers; while the vast majority of people affected by the project's decisions -- namely the "mere" users -- do not have any say. -antrik-
