The debian-private mailing list leak, part 1. Volunteers have complained about Blackmail. Lynchings. Character assassination. Defamation. Cyberbullying. Volunteers who gave many years of their lives are picked out at random for cruel social experiments. The former DPL's girlfriend Molly de Blanc is given volunteers to experiment on for her crazy talks. These volunteers never consented to be used like lab rats. We don't either. debian-private can no longer be a safe space for the cabal. Let these monsters have nowhere to hide. Volunteers are not disposable. We stand with the victims.
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Re: Relax! Things are normal again

On Wed, 1 May 1996, Simon Shapiro wrote:

> What I cannot understand (I accept none of this thievery!), is why
> would anyone want to steal and then illegally distribute copies of
> Windoze NT version 4 :-)

precisely!

even ignoring the issue of ethics, stealing NT doesn't make any sense. 

Why steal an inadequate "operating system" when you can legally download
and run an excellent OS for free?

What with tkdesk & ical and the ever growing range of tk/tcl based
applications coming out out all the time, the commercial operating
systems are even losing their edge in good applications software.

I downloaded and compiled TkDesk for the first time yesterday morning
(it only took me an hour or two of work to compile it and add the
debian.rules etc files to turn it into a debian package)...it's an
excellent file manager that puts the win file manager to shame.

I've been playing with tkined recently too - looks like it will be an
excellent tool for keeping an eye on my network...now i need to learn
more about snmp to take full advantage of it. 

ical seems to be the best calendar/diary app i've ever seen.

The only problem with tk apps is that they're usually enormous memory
hogs, but this is true for ANY x application.  And true for Win & Mac
software too.  I need another 16mb or even more...it's good thing that
memory prices are coming down fast :-)

I'm going to go hunting for Tk/tcl apps...if i find any more good ones
i'll debianise them.

One question:  Do Tk apps belong in /usr/bin or in /usr/X11/bin?  I put
TkDesk in /usr/bin because that's where tkined and ical live.  Was that
the right decision according to the debian version of the FSSTND?

Craig