Re: [Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-21 Thread P. T. Zoltowski
RMS stance is understandable, because he is also responsible for the current situation. He failed to predict it, and his dream is now turning into another Animal Farm, where some developers are becoming more equal than others (it's an open question if there was a better strategy possible when GPL

Re: [Dng] greets

2015-03-14 Thread P. T. Zoltowski
But this is all very off the mark. You are describing liberalism (libertas--freedom) here, an impoverished individualism that does not at all capture the essence of democracy, which is, instead, the idea that people (demos) retain their own power (kratia), and actively use it to make

Re: [Dng] greets

2015-03-11 Thread P. T. Zoltowski
Here's a story . . . my local food co-op recently had a vote to boycott a product. There are @16,000 members. In the end the vote was 639 for the boycott and 338 against. I call it the tyranny of the majority of the minority. Still leaves a bitter taste . . . The point being that unless

Re: [Dng] Community polls on Devuan design

2015-02-08 Thread P. T. Zoltowski
I would vote for http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/File:Negative_galaxy_banner.png but I would change the direction of the spirals, now they are in the opposite direction to text, creating some dissonance. I think it's better to avoid any resemblance to debian logo, for obvious reasons.