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.
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: gated

From: Vadim Vygonets <vadik@cs.huji.ac.il>
> I don't know about all of us, but I do my job here to provide people
> good software, and because I like it, and because I like Unix, not to
> get any kind of respect.

I think you might be taking my comment out of context.

The point of Debian is not just to make good software for end-users.
Other Linux distributions do that very well without our help, and you
can get Red Hat for $1.99 from the same people who sell Debian. We set
out to make a system that others could add to and redistribute and
use in all sorts of ways without running into licensing problems. In
addition, we would like to have more programs that can be added to
and redistributed and used in all sorts of ways without any licensing
problems. To do this, we can't just add any program to the system - we
first have to convince the author of the program to use a "free" license.
It is required that the author have some degree of respect for us if we
are to convince them of anything, thus respect is important to us for
concrete reasons. Regarding the self-respect point, that has to do with
not abandoning our principles for something small. That seems to be
important to a significant number of the developers.

I understand that some number of our maintainers do not share our
enthusiasm for (or perhaps do not completely understand) the free
software part of the mission.

	Thanks

	Bruce
-- 
Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it?
Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html
Bruce Perens K6BP   bruce@pixar.com   510-215-3502


--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
debian-private-request@lists.debian.org . 
Trouble?  e-mail to templin@bucknell.edu .