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

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

Indeed.  

> 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 

Funny, I came into it the other way; though I've been a free software
hacker for a long time (I've been at Cygnus since before Linux came
out, even ignoring the stuff I did at MIT) and I switched to debian
*entirely* because I needed a clean way to upgrade my MCC system from
a.out to ELF... "sidegrading" to 0.99 or so, with everything still
working, and then going "up" to the ELF version.  But the reason I
help out, package and maintain things, is the vision -- that a truly
free *system* is not only a worthy goal, it's a *possible* one.

Don't neglect the value of that motivation.  Look, for example, at the
fact that XFree86 3.3 has gzip'ed font support.  Sure it saves some
space... but the work was done *because* that meant "freeing" us from
the need to use a non-free tool, namely "compress".  That was
something that was techinically possible for years -- but it was the
*vision* that provided the motivation to make it *happen*...


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