Hi, Jonathan Walther wrote:
I prefer my fellow Debian brothers to develop rhinocerous hides. :-)
Disregarding your smiley for a moment (I'm not sure what you want say with
it anyway): I disagree.
Rhino hides tend to come with Rhino horns, which people then get in the
habit of using as an
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 08:15:09AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote:
I herby propose the following editorial changes to the SC, as
alternative to Andrews proposal:
Since ballot alternatives start out life as amendments to the current
proposal, I think it would be helpful if you could provide this as
Anand == Anand Kumria [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Anand I, personally, suspect that the unfriendliness of Debian is
Anand behind a lot of requests for smaller mailing lists seen by
Anand listmaster these days. A lot of people don't bother to use
Anand the main mailing lists anymore
* Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040326 21:10]:
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 08:15:09AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote:
I herby propose the following editorial changes to the SC, as
alternative to Andrews proposal:
Since ballot alternatives start out life as amendments to the current
proposal,
I have just plowed through a large wad of messages on this thread, and
the only thing I have to say is that every everything I have read is
self justification or off topic crap.
In principle I agree with Craig. The arguments over non-free are just
plain stupid.
There is no contradiction
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 07:01:41PM +0100, Dale C. Scheetz wrote:
There is no contradiction between declaring Debian to be totally about
Free Software, and the maintaining of a section called non-free. The
non-free packages are examples of software that fails to meet our
definition of free,
I went to a site to to download 3d wolfenstein for
free, and up flashed a sign saying that I was the 50,000,000 visitor to the
site, and also I had won a prize. It told me to shut the window and
contact the prize department - which I did. When I got to the prize
departments site, all I
I think we should handle changes to each section separately. Of
course there are interactions between, but there are several discrete
proposals in each of the two version of changes, and I might like some
and not others. I would hate to have to vote against the ones I like
just because they are
* Thomas Bushnell, BSG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040327 05:25]:
I think we should handle changes to each section separately.
Sounds like a good idea.
Cheers,
Andi
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On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
Of course there are interactions between, but there are several
discrete proposals in each of the two version of changes, and I
might like some and not others. I would hate to have to vote
against the ones I like just because they are tied to
* Nathanael Nerode ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040325 00:55]:
Well, IMHO the old version is much nicer. The social contract _should_
in my opinion have some nice, not too technical start. A promise is a
very good start, and I'd like to keep that there.
You have a point. Andrew's version is
Hi,
I herby propose the following editorial changes to the SC, as
alternative to Andrews proposal:
| 1. Debian Will Remain 100% Free Software
|
| We promise to keep the Debian system and all its components entirely
| free software. We provide the guidelines that we use to determine if
| a work
Hi, Jonathan Walther wrote:
I prefer my fellow Debian brothers to develop rhinocerous hides. :-)
Disregarding your smiley for a moment (I'm not sure what you want say with
it anyway): I disagree.
Rhino hides tend to come with Rhino horns, which people then get in the
habit of using as an
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 08:15:09AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote:
I herby propose the following editorial changes to the SC, as
alternative to Andrews proposal:
Since ballot alternatives start out life as amendments to the current
proposal, I think it would be helpful if you could provide this as
Anand == Anand Kumria [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Anand I, personally, suspect that the unfriendliness of Debian is
Anand behind a lot of requests for smaller mailing lists seen by
Anand listmaster these days. A lot of people don't bother to use
Anand the main mailing lists anymore
* Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040326 21:10]:
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 08:15:09AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote:
I herby propose the following editorial changes to the SC, as
alternative to Andrews proposal:
Since ballot alternatives start out life as amendments to the current
proposal,
I have just plowed through a large wad of messages on this thread, and
the only thing I have to say is that every everything I have read is
self justification or off topic crap.
In principle I agree with Craig. The arguments over non-free are just
plain stupid.
There is no contradiction
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 07:01:41PM +0100, Dale C. Scheetz wrote:
There is no contradiction between declaring Debian to be totally about
Free Software, and the maintaining of a section called non-free. The
non-free packages are examples of software that fails to meet our
definition of free,
I went to a site to to download 3d wolfenstein for
free, and up flashed a sign saying that I was the 50,000,000 visitor to the
site, and also I had won a prize. It told me to shut the window and
contact the prize department - which I did. When I got to the prize
departments site, all I
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