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Re: my personal status report

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bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens) writes:

> 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.

My view is that this is our decision to make.  Let me briefly answer
these complaints:

* Lying about our ancestry

We can require official packages to put an approved paragraph about
Debian on the outside of the product.  It could be that this concern
is really a reflection of political views.  That is, people who hate
corporations.

* $2 CD fee

Tough.  We have a good product.  If people don't like the $2 fee, they
don't have to make official CDs.  Someone else will make them.

Also, we can sell products and become a recognized non-profit
company.  (For example, girl scouts sell cookies.)

* The big picture

If you have enough people (like on Debian devel), someone is going to
whine.  Elect a board and you will only have to answer to them.

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Daniel Quinlan (quinlan@pathname.com)   At work (quinlan@transmeta.com)
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