Re: late for party (was Re: Proposal: The DFSG do not require source code for data, including firmware)

2006-08-25 Thread MJ Ray
Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted from wonderland.linux.it: No, it's because they really do not believe this to be a problem, like everybody else but a few people polluting debian-legal. I note that several of those supporting the current source code requirement for main don't post much to

Re: Proposal: The DFSG do not require source code for data, including firmware

2006-08-24 Thread MJ Ray
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] This GR is a position statement, not an amendment to the foundation documents, which means a couple of things. [...] As I understand it, this proposal seeks to exempt parts of debian from part of the DFSG. Why is that not an amendment to the foundation

Re: Proposal: The DFSG do not require source code for data, including firmware

2006-08-23 Thread MJ Ray
Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think it's reasonable to refuse to ship non-free code when there's actually a choice or when it's likely to provide an incentive to implement a free version. But right now, I don't see any evidence that refusing to ship non-free firmware will do anything

Re: Constitutional Amendment GR: Handling assets for the project

2006-08-22 Thread MJ Ray
Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] [... Debian auditor ...] I'm just wondering a bit if this all is a good idea. [...] don't really understand why this is immediately translated into building a bureaucracy around it. [...] As I understand it, the oversight has been provided until now by the

Re: Constitutional Amendment GR: Handling assets for the project

2006-07-23 Thread MJ Ray
Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organisations holding assets in trust for Debian should undertake reasonable obligations for the handling of such assets. As an example of best practice at the time of writing, SPI have made the following undertakings: Needless

Re: Constitutional Amendment GR: Handling assets for the project

2006-07-21 Thread MJ Ray
Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] bad re-interpretations to make it mean something else, like the attempt to make only the SPI be able to hold assets for Debian that we've seen in recent times, which makes use of an ambiguity in the wording of the constitution.) I agree that the constitution

Re: Constitutional Amendment GR: Handling assets for the project

2006-07-21 Thread MJ Ray
Nick Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MJ Ray wrote: Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] + It would be preferable if the organizations holding assets in + trust for Debian undertake certain obligations for the handling of + such assets, as an example: [...] You're right

Re: Donations

2006-06-21 Thread MJ Ray
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] + It would be preferable if the organizations holding assets in + trust for Debian undertake certain obligations for the handling of + such assets, as an example: It seems strange to use a conditional with no condition. I suggest: + It is preferred

Re: Donations

2006-06-21 Thread MJ Ray
Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think it would be better to formulate a requirement that it must be a not-for-profit organization, but leave the choice on the tax-beneficial status to the people doing the actual organization. I think there are many benefits from being a tax-beneficial

Re: Donations

2006-06-20 Thread MJ Ray
Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 07:27:08AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: [...] Which countries can have no suitable organisations? I don't know, but I don't want to gamble on it not being an issue. I've looked into this in the past and every example country suggested

Re: Donations

2006-06-20 Thread MJ Ray
Martin Wuertele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In some countries like e.g. Austria it is quite difficult to get the tax-deductable status for donations while it is fairly easy to get tax exumption for them. Then I think going tax-exempt would be adequate in Austria. If a company holds money on

Re: Donations

2006-06-15 Thread MJ Ray
Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The DPL could 'unvet' the first one and then vet the second one. [...] Even if it was vetted and failed, it was still vetted, unless there's time travel. I suggest that the vetting limit wouldn't make sense. The point of the exercise is to avoid having

Re: Donations

2006-06-14 Thread MJ Ray
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Err, Would Evil DPL actually pay that much attention to the constitution? Probably not, but who would hold them to the constitution? Or would the constitution be rewritten to match DPL actions after they've been actively working against its

Re: Donations

2006-06-12 Thread MJ Ray
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] How about simplifying the strictures in the constitution to something like this: That seems a substantial power transfer to the DPL, with the related loss of scrutiny. It may not cause problems now, but it's quite a bet on the financial prudence of

Re: Donations

2006-06-12 Thread MJ Ray
Joe Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Money means currency. Like with currency, plurals are not used to indicate the amount of the currency. However, when when talking about multiple types of currency (multiple types of money) you do use the plural. Not necessarily multiple currencies, but any amounts

Re: GR proposal - Restricted-media amendments to the DFSG

2006-04-13 Thread MJ Ray
Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 4/12/06, MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I keep asking why some people claim that the FDL wasn't drafted to prohibit all copy-control measures, as that seems to be a crucial question in this, and nobody answered yet AFAICT. You might claim

Re: GR proposal - Restricted-media amendments to the DFSG

2006-04-12 Thread MJ Ray
Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 4/11/06, MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nevertheless, neither of us would be made happy by a detailed repeat of it on -vote. You'd remain unconvinced and I'd be annoyed by the lost time. Your comment, here, does not agree with the meaning conveyed

Re: GR proposal - Restricted-media amendments to the DFSG

2006-04-11 Thread MJ Ray
Raul Miller wrote: I was not convinced by this rebuttal. Nevertheless, neither of us would be made happy by a detailed repeat of it on -vote. You'd remain unconvinced and I'd be annoyed by the lost time. Furthermore, I'm not sure what issue(s) you feel references are needed on. The drafters'

Re: GR proposal - Restricted-media amendments to the DFSG

2006-04-10 Thread MJ Ray
Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 4/7/06, MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I keep asking why some people claim that the FDL wasn't drafted to prohibit all copy-control measures, as that seems to be a crucial question in this, and nobody answered yet AFAICT. Power switches can be used

Re: GR proposal - Restricted-media amendments to the DFSG

2006-04-07 Thread MJ Ray
On 1916-3.820-5.730(4sf), Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [So a GR can state that pi=3,] No. Language, and interpretation thereof, is not an exact science. Math is. The representation of maths is not much more exact than language in some ways. Two half-daft observations from a

Re: GR proposal - Restricted-media amendments to the DFSG

2006-04-07 Thread MJ Ray
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 09:04:35AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: At the end of DFSG #2, the following text should be added: The license may restrict distribution to some kinds of media if it is still possible to distribute the source code

Re: Amendment - Restricted-media amendments to the DFSG

2006-04-07 Thread MJ Ray
Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] This formulation is better in one sense, as it avoids licenses being too restrictive. However it tangles the DFSG with the current media we are distributing our packages on, and I don't like that much. It seems likely that we will have an online archive and

Re: DPL Debate unasked questions

2006-03-20 Thread MJ Ray
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au GFDL (relating to the can't chmod a document and can't distribute a transparent copy separately) -- it might be fair to be strict about that, because we've been bitten by not being strict in the past on issues such as the pine license, but otoh, there's

Re: Question for Ted Walther.

2006-03-17 Thread MJ Ray
Zephaniah E. Hull [EMAIL PROTECTED] During the debate you made a number of assertions about a number of others running for DPL, specificly alleging that you had specific evidence of religious discrimination. After specificly accusing Jeroen van Wolffelaar of this he asked for specific

Re: Candidate questions: expulsions process

2006-03-17 Thread MJ Ray
Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] No need - Mark Ray did so earlier in the week. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but I think http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2006/03/msg00269.html was disliked, because there was a sudden surge in posting frequency, which many people do when

Re: Candidate questions: expulsions process

2006-03-12 Thread MJ Ray
Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/01/msg00968.html For those who can't read -private, Andrew's claims are untrue - objections are voiced due to the manner in which Andrew voiced his beliefs, not the beliefs in and of themselves. The

Re: Candidate questions: expulsions process

2006-03-11 Thread MJ Ray
Benjamin Seidenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Say (said, saying, says): 2. To express in words: Say what's on your mind. 3. a. To state as one's opinion or judgment; declare: I say let's eat out. b. To state as a determination of fact: It's hard to say who is right in this matter..

Re: Candidate questions: expulsions process

2006-03-10 Thread MJ Ray
Steve McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 10:36:42AM +, MJ Ray wrote: 1. The process is intended as a last resort - what steps would you take before initiating or supporting it yourself? I would need to convince myself of two things: * that the project as a whole

Re: Candidate questions: expulsions process

2006-03-10 Thread MJ Ray
Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] You said: ITYM wrote. Any voices you heard reading debian-vote to you today were not mine. If you can't distinguish between me and the voices you hear reading debian-vote to you, please ask your doctor. 2. Do you believe it would be fair to cite someone's

Re: Candidate questions: expulsions process

2006-03-09 Thread MJ Ray
Bill Allombert [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 10:36:42AM +, MJ Ray wrote: 2. Do you believe it would be fair to cite someone's non-technical socio-religious views in the reasoning for or against expulsion? I sure hope you are not seriously asking that. Sadly, events last

Re: Candidate questions: expulsions process

2006-03-09 Thread MJ Ray
Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do you believe that anyone in Debian has ever been discriminated against for socio-religious views that had no impact on their ability to work in the project? Given the number of people in Debian, it seems probable that one will have experienced religious

Re: Question to all candidates about stable point releases

2006-03-08 Thread MJ Ray
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: [+2 questions from other people] On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 04:39:52PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: Why does it need to happen directly after r2? [+3 questions] Uh, what the hell? [+2 things that might be answers] This is why I hate trying to talk

Re: Nomination

2006-02-27 Thread MJ Ray
Kevin Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's specifically is inappropriate about publically stating one's opinion of a candidate, whether positive or negative, after being nominated for the position? IMO it was inappropriate because it was mostly a personal attack and said nothing about why to

Appeal to candidate questioners

2006-02-27 Thread MJ Ray
Please, if you email questions of the candidates, put something in the subject line to indicate the subject(s) of the questions. It will make it much easier to find them in the archives. Last year, we had very helpful debate summaries posted by David Schmitt(?) which helped solve this confusion,

Re: A new practical problem with invariant sections?

2006-02-15 Thread MJ Ray
olive [EMAIL PROTECTED] However the DFSG is there to juge if a license is free or not and these guidlines must be used to juge the freeness of a software. A lot of zealots in this list just invent way to reject licenses they don't like even if these complies with the DFSG; or invent some

Re: GFDL GR, vote please!

2006-02-10 Thread MJ Ray
Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED] The reference cards do not require the removal of the invariant sections. You can print the invariant sections on separate sheet(s) of paper. Any work requiring waste of paper on that relative scale is not only not free as in freedom, but unethical and

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-09 Thread MJ Ray
Xavier Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, J=E9r=F4me Marant wrote: I'd propose to revert this and clearly define what software is. I fully agree. The Holier than Stallman stuff is really getting ridiculous. After the firmware madeness, now the documentation madeness. [...]

Re: A clarification for my interpretation of GFDL [was: Anton's amendment]

2006-02-06 Thread MJ Ray
Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, MJ Ray said: The current opinion of FSF, at least. In the past, RMS has worked against advertising clauses far less obnoxious than the FDL ones. [...] Er, we consider the 4 clause BSD license a free license. I know. Did you just not read

Re: The invariant sections are not forbidden by DFSG

2006-02-02 Thread MJ Ray
Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 05:22:39PM +, MJ Ray wrote: That's exactly why it's not similar to the things allowed by the patch clause. FDL is more a licence that requires later programmers to add a function that adds to or clarifies or subverts the original

A clarification for my interpretation of GFDL [was: Anton's amendment]

2006-02-02 Thread MJ Ray
Anton Zinoviev write: Can you confirm that the second interpretation expresses properly what modifications must be allowed about a particular software program or documentation for it to be considered free by FSF. Notice that I intentionaly mentioned both software program and

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-01 Thread MJ Ray
Anton Zinoviev wrote: [...] If I decide to create a package with some essays from www.gnu.org that package would be free acording to FSF and non-free acording to DFSG (because these essays are not modifiable). I have no problems with that. FSF would probably call it free documentation or

Re: Minimum standard of decency, was: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-31 Thread MJ Ray
Adeodato Simó Are you deliberately lying here, to make your point prettier, or are you ciberately stating that Andrew lied himself in [3]? Neither. Thanks, -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct --

Re: The invariant sections are not forbidden by DFSG

2006-01-31 Thread MJ Ray
craig the DFSG does not require convenience. it requires freedom. lack of convenience DOES NOT equate to non-free. case in point - it is inconvenient (for both the distributor and the user) to distribute modified software in the form of original work + patch file. very inconvenient. in

Re: The invariant sections are not forbidden by DFSG

2006-01-31 Thread MJ Ray
Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] the patch to the opinions/rants/whatever in an invariant section does not change that invariant section (it can't change, it's *INVARIANT*). It adds a NEW invariant section which makes whatever point the 'patcher' wants to make. the new section may add to

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-30 Thread MJ Ray
Craig Sanders wrote: as has been pointed out hundreds of times before, there are several other situations where neither the DFSG nor the debian project require modifiability - license texts and copyright notices, for example. As has been pointed out hundreds more times, those limitations are

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-30 Thread MJ Ray
Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 10:24:17AM +, MJ Ray wrote: As has been pointed out hundreds more times, those limitations are imposed by copyright law more than by licences. Even the licences which can be modified (such as the GPL), can't be modified if you

Minimum standard of decency, was: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-30 Thread MJ Ray
Roger Leigh I think that this behaviour, as well as that on other lists in the recent past, is making it increasingly necessary that we introduce some way of enforcing a minimum standard of decency on our lists. [...] You pillory[1] a man over his -private beliefs about death[2] to the point

Re: Suggest ballot-by-section of the FDL position GR

2006-01-26 Thread MJ Ray
Michael wrote: I'm thinking of something like http://people.debian.org/~mjr/gr-fdl.txt (24k, only based on originals) Uhm, this is a joke, right? No. I'll thank you to get better at spotting jokes. I expect there are others who agree with aj's text on some points and adeodato's on another.

Suggest ballot-by-section of the FDL position GR

2006-01-25 Thread MJ Ray
still too divided on this matter. BTW, I disagree with the suggestion that reversing the release team decision should be fast-tracked to appear before the position. We should find our position and then act appropriately, if possible. Thanks for reading, -- MJ Ray - personal email, see http

Understanding the GFDL GR proposal and amendment

2006-01-20 Thread MJ Ray
At the time of writing, I've not seen these two answered: Fabian Fagerholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Has Debian explicitly adopted the view that GFDL is completely non-DFSG-free regardless of its mode of use? If so, which GR(s) has (have) established this? I think so. Amongst others, see

Re: Amendment: invariant-less in main (Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement)

2006-01-13 Thread MJ Ray
Adeodato =?utf-8?B?U2ltw7M=?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Right, FSF stuff goes away. OTOH, I feel utterly ashamed each time I imagine the possibility of the following conversation taking place: =C2=ABHey, fellow free software developer, thanks for writing such a cool program and releasing it under the

Re: Amendment: invariant-less in main (Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement)

2006-01-11 Thread MJ Ray
Adeodato Sim=C3=B3 Formally, the Debian Project will include in the main section of its distribution works licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License that include no Invariant Sections, no Cover Texts, no Acknowledgements, and no Dedications, unless permission to remove

Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement

2006-01-05 Thread MJ Ray
Stephane Bortzmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] But not all documentation is attached to a software. For instance, if I write a book Software development on Debian, releasing it under the GFDL is still the reasonable thing to do. It's reasonable if you want to attach adverts to it and allow others to do

Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement

2006-01-03 Thread MJ Ray
documented, the GNU General Public License (for a copyleft license) or a BSD- or MIT/X11-style license (for a non-copyleft license). [...] I've put the above draft on the wiki [3] so people can tweak it. [3] http://wiki.debian.org/GFDLPositionStatement That page says it is immutable. Thanks, -- MJ

Re: GR Proposal: Declassification of -private

2005-12-03 Thread MJ Ray
Anthony Towns wrote: On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 03:00:42PM +, Moray Allan wrote: Wouldn't it be better for people interested in opening the -private archives to try a pure opt-in approach first? (Which wouldn't require any change to current policies.) If most of the archive should be

Re: Proposal for *Real* Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-03 Thread MJ Ray
Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] I also worry about security reports that include personally identifiable information, trade (business?) secrets or copyrighted material, which are not really relevant to the bug itself, but were sent in with the expectation that this was a typical vendor

Re: Proposal for *Real* Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-03 Thread MJ Ray
Kalle Kivimaa [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] And as you can see from the proposal, we all have a veto on the declassification [...] There is no *veto* in the proposal. There is a limited opportunity for the message author to object and otherwise a GR can be used - which would be possible anyway if the

Re: General Resolution: Declassification of debian-private list archives

2005-12-01 Thread MJ Ray
Julian Gilbey [EMAIL PROTECTED] I see a glaring contradiction here: on the one hand, the opening paragraph talks about publishing selected posts: those with historical or ongoing significance, but the rest of the GR talks about declassifying *all* emails with stated exceptions. [...] I don't

Re: GR Proposal 2: Declassification of -private

2005-11-22 Thread MJ Ray
Margarita Manterola [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is important historical information hidden in the debian-private archives. Like the reasons why the social contract and the DFSG are the way they are. I believe that is a small proportion of the messages and does not justify the proposed disclosure

Re: GR Proposal 2: Declassification of -private

2005-11-21 Thread MJ Ray
Kalle Kivimaa [EMAIL PROTECTED] The proposal guarantees that if an author wishes his/her post(s) to remain confidential, they will do so. The proposal has a specific procedure that must be followed to publish any -private message, either past or future, and the author of the message has a veto

Re: GR Proposal 2: Declassification of -private

2005-11-18 Thread MJ Ray
It seems my previous post got lost or ignored. Retrying: Anthony Towns wrote: * The team will automatically declassify and publish posts made to that list that are three or more years old, with the following exceptions: I don't think we have any moral right and barely any legal

Re: Vote for the Debian Project Leader Election 2005

2005-03-24 Thread MJ Ray
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David N. Welton) wrote: Just to be clear, nothing against Anthony Towns. I think he'd do alright as DPL. Sounds like you've asked a few people and are now hedging your bets! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Question about Anthony Towns rebutting Branden Robinson

2005-03-18 Thread MJ Ray
Ean Schuessler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 17 March 2005 6:20 pm, MJ Ray wrote: [...] Isn't that why we have the reference to section 9 in the DPL's description, which defines the debian/SPI relationship and SPI only considers DPL requests. [...] So, does it take a GR to move

Re: Question about Anthony Towns rebutting Branden Robinson

2005-03-17 Thread MJ Ray
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: [...] It took 'til April for people not paying attention to SPI to notice the change [3], I don't have authorization for spi-private archives right now (which, as an SPI contributing member, I think sucks). Who do you mean by people not paying

Re: Question about Anthony Towns rebutting Branden Robinson

2005-03-17 Thread MJ Ray
Ean Schuessler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This summary leaves out some key elements. That's a nature of both summary and diplomacy. He didn't mention that you were organisationally asleep and reacted when you woke up by trying to exceed your powers. I suspect John wants to avoid any unnecessary

Re: Question about Anthony Towns rebutting Branden Robinson

2005-03-17 Thread MJ Ray
Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-17 12:20]: I don't have authorization for spi-private archives right now (which, as an SPI contributing member, I think sucks). Why does it not work? http://members.spi-inc.org/ doesn't let me sign

Re: Question about Anthony Towns rebutting Branden Robinson

2005-03-17 Thread MJ Ray
Ean Schuessler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't want to revisit the entire discussion here but if you read the by-laws you will see that they specifically empower the President to see that all books, reports and certificates as required by law are properly kept or filed. The only way I

Re: Question about Anthony Towns rebutting Branden Robinson

2005-03-17 Thread MJ Ray
Ean Schuessler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 17 March 2005 2:07 pm, MJ Ray wrote: Yes, it would be good to have more replies on http://debian.edv-bus.at/vote-2005/spi-management.html Agreed. I have been reminded that an SPI question was asked around line 205 of http

DPL IRC debate log

2005-03-16 Thread MJ Ray
A (xhtml, line-numbered, colourised) log of #debian-dpl-debate is available at http://people.debian.org/~mjr/debian_dpl_debate.html Let me know if you want reasonable presentation mods. Like the BBC says: other logs may exist. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: DPL election IRC Debate - Call for questions

2005-03-16 Thread MJ Ray
Ean Schuessler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The accounting solution at SPI is still tenuous. Illness, accident or simple boredom could still easily lead us to the situation we had before. The solution you've outlined could work but it increases complexity rather than removing it. I don't know

Question about Anthony Towns rebutting Branden Robinson

2005-03-16 Thread MJ Ray
Anthony Towns's rebuttal to Branden Robinson looks partly false. It mentions Branden's demotion to deputy-treasurer under Jimmy Kaplowitz about SPI. It looks from http://www.spi-inc.org/corporate/resolutions/resolution-2004-01-06.jrk.1.br.1 and http://www.spi-inc.org/corporate/minutes/20040907

Re: debian-women obscurity, was: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-14 Thread MJ Ray
Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sure. I have asked the questions on-topic here (summarised at http://debian.edv-bus.at/vote-2005/communication-exclusion.html http://debian.edv-bus.at/vote-2005/communication-debian-women.html ) and hope

Re: debian-women obscurity, was: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-12 Thread MJ Ray
Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: to discrimination, but I was told that wasn't a list purpose: are you saying it is? Why do you know better than others? I notice that you do not directly answer any question. I am saying tha discrimination

Re: debian-women obscurity, was: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-12 Thread MJ Ray
Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Note: I originally posted this to another list -- thinking this whole debian-women thread was off topic for debian-vote. M.J. Ray indicated only that he thinks debian-vote is the appropriate list, so I'm reposting it here, with minor edits.] What a

Re: debian-women obscurity, was: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-11 Thread MJ Ray
Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The idea to ignore trolls is hardly new, or unusual. Nor is it a policy, in the sense that anyone is ordered to ignore them under pain of expulsion. [...] Not in that sense, but that sense doesn't follow directly from the word policy. I'd expect

Re: debian-women obscurity, was: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-11 Thread MJ Ray
Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Not in that sense, but that sense doesn't follow directly from the word policy. I'd expect someone consistently ignoring it to be corrected, but ICBW. It's not policy regardless. It's a recommendation

Re: Question for candidate Robinson

2005-03-10 Thread MJ Ray
David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 01:19:16PM +, MJ Ray wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If debian-legal is to be thrusted, they must be prepared to have an argumentation whichis able to convince the maintainer, and not try to force half

Re: debian-women obscurity, was: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-10 Thread MJ Ray
Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For example, Searching for Safety Online (which recommends pro-active interventions) has been used to justify the debate-killing silence policy in the List FAQ, which seems just plain broken. Wait, you think

Re: Debian-legal code of conduct

2005-03-09 Thread MJ Ray
Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on -vote: This is partly a problem with debian-legal documentation, but some of the stuff you do is listed as don't do this in the list code of conduct. There is a code of conduct specifically for debian-legal

Re: Question for A. Towns - NM

2005-03-09 Thread MJ Ray
Matthias Urlichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can get another ticket for the Meme Lottery if you tell us what we I think this above is inappropriate content. (and/or the new DPL) should do instead, given that (a) inappropriate content is a problem on many Debian lists, and (b) previous

Re: debian-women obscurity, was: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-09 Thread MJ Ray
Amaya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] When I first became a developer, I found debian-devel frightening, hostile and very intimidating, I must admit this was not so because of gender issues. [...] In fact, I suspect the correlation is not very strong. [...] more of a personal issue ok, so

Re: Question for candidate Robinson

2005-03-09 Thread MJ Ray
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 11:46:39PM +, MJ Ray wrote: [...] Why do you think that you would get no warning? It's not like Because the first mention i got of the problem was when some debian-legal following idiot send me a bug report that my package

Re: debian-women obscurity, was: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-09 Thread MJ Ray
Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And, personally, I really don't see the relevance in the context of this web page. If you're tired, and want to just get stuff done, don't you have your own web pages? [...] A variation on the you can discriminate in your own space suggestion. Not a good

Re: Question for candidate Robinson

2005-03-08 Thread MJ Ray
Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marco subscribes to the notion that the DFSG was originally only meant to apply to ELF binaries, and anything else is de jure free. Anybody who says different, including anybody who was around at the time, can be dismissed as a 'revisionist'. Marco

Re: Q for Andreas Schuldei: Small teams??

2005-03-08 Thread MJ Ray
Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are invited to clarify on the small teams section of your platform. [...] I understood it as similar to what I call the magnificent seven models being advocated by consensus-based grassroots groups recently. I don't know whether I was right and I'll

Re: Question for candidate Robinson

2005-03-08 Thread MJ Ray
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And most DDs have also stopped paying any attention to -legal, so ... I challenge you to provide data, but it's actually irrelevant, as long as we assist those who want our assistence. debian-legal is mostly welcoming and willing to help with debian packages.

Re: Question for candidate Robinson

2005-03-08 Thread MJ Ray
Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 03:31:49PM +, MJ Ray wrote: [...] I hope that the link was there originally and has just been lost because of the sort of habit and familiarity that made you name the wrong test above. [...] The notion that it has ever

Re: OT: Re: debian-women obscurity, was: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-07 Thread MJ Ray
Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] They're trying to find out why women aren't as actively involved in Debian as are men, so that they can remedy any problems, should those arise. I support them doing that. In doing so, it isn't unreasonable to see what women currently involved

Re: debian-women obscurity, was: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-06 Thread MJ Ray
Steve McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MJ Ray wrote: Erinn Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because you refuse to subscribe to our list or read DWN for ideological reasons. I think you'll find many DDs aren't subscribed to your list or reading DWN. *yawn* And they're also not the ones

Re: OT: Re: debian-women obscurity, was: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-06 Thread MJ Ray
Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You haven't said anything sexist about it, except that it has a clear purpose. I have, IMO. I consider discrimination on the basis of sex to be sexism. I've also described an incident of unchallenged racism on the debian-women list. While I believe

Re: OT: Re: debian-women obscurity, was: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-06 Thread MJ Ray
Ben Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have, IMO. I consider discrimination on the basis of sex to be sexism. i.e., you favour the law of the jungle. Which, may I say, has a fine history of maintaining artificial imbalances caused by past injustices. No, I favour stopping discrimination and

Re: OT: Re: debian-women obscurity, was: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-06 Thread MJ Ray
Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 02:09:26AM +, MJ Ray wrote: Arguing in favour of so-called positive discrimination is just another case of ignoring present crimes by past-persecuted people. We have to learn from the past and overcome mistakes, not relive

Re: Red-tops, was: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-05 Thread MJ Ray
Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe. Call it revenge if you want, but please consider whether there's truth behind them or how one can tell. Your accusations are, as far as I can tell, entirely false. Can you tell? I know at least one

Re: OT: Re: debian-women obscurity, was: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-05 Thread MJ Ray
Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is a women-only web page? A page about people that only admits contributions from women. Where is the list charter for debian-women women-only? Being about or by women are the only topicality criteria for debian-women, last I saw. -- To

Re: debian-women obscurity, was: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-05 Thread MJ Ray
Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sadly not directly. The public stuff is too vague and limited to the level of Who cares? about someone linking krooger's message to him being a white christian male. All the debian-women mail is public. All

Re: Exclusion, was: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-05 Thread MJ Ray
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Notice that there is already an effort on this subject going on in debian-esperanto, and you would have known about it if you had been subscribed to this list, i guess you are more than welcome to join that effort. Notice that I am a (minor) part in that

Re: communication obscurity [was: debian-women obscurity]

2005-03-05 Thread MJ Ray
Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 02:25:49AM +, MJ Ray wrote: Like those are the only two options, the two extremes. It When you're trying to solve the problem of ensure that someone you may not know exists gets your announcements, that is basically

Re: Red-tops, was: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-05 Thread MJ Ray
Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The list shows everybody who has more than 1000 points. You are not among them (except if my DWN-parsing script is broken), but MJ himself currently has 2661 points and a ranking of #30. Interesting, but missing any measure of whether I'm being kissed

Re: Red-tops, was: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-05 Thread MJ Ray
Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scripsit MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] Interesting, but missing any measure of whether I'm being kissed or kicked. If we are talking about the same publication, then neither. For all the time I have read DWN, its stories have consisted of neutral

Re: Red-tops, was: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-05 Thread MJ Ray
Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you cannot substantiate them publicly, then they are nothing more than pissing in the wind. Get Message-Id [EMAIL PROTECTED] that was sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if it matters that much to you. I don't have a copy here and I've not checked my

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