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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PC magazine article

Please check out <URL:http://www.min.net/~douglas/pcmag.html>; it looks like
a fair article, but there is one thing that might be reason for a short
letter:

|Linux is covered under the Free Software Foundation's GNU Project General
|Public License, which allows authors to hold copyright (Torvalds is the
|copyright owner of the Linux kernel) but also demands that all source code
|for the software be publicly available for massaging by other developers.
|Modified software can then be sold or given away by these developers, but
|they too must make the code available. This explains why commercial
|versions--Redhat and Debian, for example--are also available via download
|for free. Commercial Linux distributors make money by adding value--in the
|form of additional utilities--on their CD-ROM versions.  And many users
|would rather buy a CD-ROM than download a few hundred megabytes of files.

I'm not really sure if I should be happy or sad that we're perceived as
commercial :-)

Bruce, perhaps you could send them a clarification? (and Cc it to Douglas,
so it'll go on the web too).

Greetings,
Ray
-- 
Tevens ben ik van mening dat Nederland overdekt dient te worden.


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