Re: What it means to be Debian

2015-07-08 Thread Ian Jackson
Sam Hartman writes (Re: What it means to be Debian): [...] However, one of the things I value about our community is that our values ar expressed in terms of our actions, not our believes. I also value in Debian _both_ that so many of the people in Debian seem to believe so many of the same

Re: What it means to be Debian

2015-07-07 Thread Sam Hartman
Bas == Bas Wijnen wij...@debian.org writes: Bas The above has nothing to do with beliefs. Beliefs are about Bas people who believe that using non-free services is better for Bas some ethical reason. They will say that even if a free Bas alternative would be available, the

Re: What it means to be Debian

2015-06-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 08:41:57PM +0200, Dominik George wrote: Hi, I find it difficult to express my disagreement with the your views, and your attitude, with the respect that is due to a fellow contributor. But I will try. I looked, but somehow failed to see how the peer in question is

Re: What it means to be Debian

2015-06-18 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 08:59:51PM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: The above has nothing to do with beliefs. Beliefs are about people who believe that using non-free services is better for some ethical reason. Do such people exist or that's a straw man? I'm not sure if they do. Thanks.

Re: What it means to be Debian

2015-06-17 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 03:59:57PM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: The above has nothing to do with beliefs. Beliefs are about people who believe that using non-free services is better for some ethical reason. Do such people exist or that's a straw man? So I agree with the illness statement

Re: What it means to be Debian

2015-06-17 Thread Philip Hands
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: Dominik George writes (Re: What it means to be Debian): I strongly support that. I also do *not* think that everyone who uses non-free services or the like should leave Debian or is neitrely bad for the community. Mostly, I *personally

Re: What it means to be Debian

2015-06-17 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 10:47:09PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 03:59:57PM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: The above has nothing to do with beliefs. Beliefs are about people who believe that using non-free services is better for some ethical reason. Do such people

Re: What it means to be Debian

2015-06-17 Thread Dominik George
Hi, I find it difficult to express my disagreement with the your views, and your attitude, with the respect that is due to a fellow contributor. But I will try. I looked, but somehow failed to see how the peer in question is a contributor. All there is is a demand for *our* contribution in

Re: What it means to be Debian

2015-06-16 Thread Dominik George
Hi, This issue is important enough to me that I'd like to take a moment to share mine. I'm not trying to pursuade you. I really appreciate how you presented your position; you didn't try to say I was wrong, and you were honest and open even when there is disagreement. I am not judging you

Re: What it means to be Debian

2015-06-16 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 02:46:45PM +0200, Dominik George wrote: Mostly, I *personally* do not find those people authentic enough to uphold any such community standard. It's somewhat like donating to a species conservation organisation, taking the money from a purse made of crocodile skin. It's

What it means to be Debian

2015-06-16 Thread Sam Hartman
Dominik == Dominik George n...@naturalnet.de writes: Dominik b) BELIEF = Dominik If any Debian contributor BELIEVES that the use of Google, Dominik and the like, is a good thing, then the illness lies in the Dominik divergence between their contribution and their

Re: What it means to be Debian

2015-06-16 Thread Zlatan Todoric
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/16/2015 03:27 PM, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: Debian isn't advertised as a distribution whose main goal is to provide 100% free something while not providing anything non-free, I think there are other projects with such advertising. So I

Re: What it means to be Debian

2015-06-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2015-06-16 at 18:27 +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 02:46:45PM +0200, Dominik George wrote: Mostly, I *personally* do not find those people authentic enough to uphold any such community standard. It's somewhat like donating to a species conservation

Re: What it means to be Debian

2015-06-16 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 06:24:09PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: Mostly, I *personally* do not find those people authentic enough to uphold any such community standard. It's somewhat like donating to a species conservation organisation, taking the money from a purse made of crocodile

Re: What it means to be Debian

2015-06-16 Thread Sam Hartman
Zlatan == Zlatan Todoric zla...@riseup.net writes: Zlatan On the other hand - I do believe that Debian contributors Zlatan should uphold Social Contract and DFSG as much as possible Zlatan because if we don't push it forward and believe in it, then Zlatan no one else will. I