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Re: my personal status report

On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:

> Being project leader is really not being fun lately, and I'm really
> disappointed with the outcome of the CD proposal. I'm disappointed that
> we have developers who think a professional package would be "lying
> about or ancestry" speaking for us at trade shows. I'm disappointed
> that a principal of the KDE project, which depends on non-free
> software, was one of the biggest noises on debian-user against the $2
> CD fee. I finally withdrew the proposal rather than prolong the bad
> publicity on debian-user.

I don't understand why any free software adherents would complain about
money changing hands, since money has nothing to do with the free software
concept.
It was my reading of those complaints that what was being objected to was
any "Comercialization" of the Debian project as a whole. The idea to "look
more corporate" was, incorrectly, seen as giving up the free software
ideals.
 
> 
> Doesn't anyone else want to run this project? I've already quit and
> taken it back once tonight. I'm not sure I was right to take it back.
> It really is being a trial.
> 
It has always been my feeling that the best persons to put in leadership
positions are those who don't want the job. I think most of us, even your
"detractors", agree that you are the best person to lead this group at the
moment. (I certainly don't want the task. This, by the way, doesn't make
me a candidate ;-)
Please, at least, wait until the BOD have been established and we see what
alternative possibilities can be created.
Personaly, I think the Board should establish a method for collecting
information on an issue that can result in a list of options being
provided to the "Director" for a final decission.

It has been my experience that volunteer organizations tend to "eat" their
leaders. Please dodge the jaws for a little longer. We really do need you
where you are.

Luck,

Dwarf

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