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: gated



On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:

[snip]
> 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.
[snip]

Bravo Bruce!  The reason I was initially attracted to Debian some years 
ago was the goal of a truly "free" distribution.  Later, when I learned 
of the superior package management system, I was sold.  While I have 
nothing against commercial software in principle, my desire to bolster 
the "free" software community is supreme--I want to be free from the 
ridiculous copyrights of M$ and other companies for all time to come.

I'm confident that the silent majority is with you on these issues. 


Thanks.  Syrus.

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