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: The "free software community" does not include Linus

I think you're twisting linus' quoted words a bit.   By 1/2/3 of
Bruce's list, linus is *exactly* a member of our FSC - (1) linux is
DFSG-correct (2) linus produces linux (3) thus qed.  The distinction
you're trying to make is one of evangelism -- linus doesn't evangelise
the way RMS does.  So what? Neither do we; even the social contract
says that (the bit about not hampering use of commercial softwre.)

I think part of the reason people are being so vocal here (and someone
was right, this isn't *nearly* as vocal as some of our other threads)
is that there is some other disconnect.  The social contract doesn't
require me to *push* the DFSG on others; it just happens that many of
the DFSG's supporters (bruce, me, manoj? for example) would do that
anyway.  In the context of a debian release, we've defined the
*release* to contain only DFSG stuff.  As I've said elsewhere, that's
what makes debian interesting -- I *can* join it (can't do that with
redhat, nor slackware, hmm?), and it demonstrates that one *can*
produce a high quality distribution entirely within the DFSG.  That's
enough; the "religious overtones" are all at a more personal level.

			_Mark_ <eichin@kitten.gen.ma.us>
			The Herd of Kittens
			Debian X Maintainer

ps. While I'm posting from here, and will have this address for a
while, I'll be leaving Cygnus for Arepa at the end of this week; after
that, personal and debian mail should go to the kitten address
above...


--
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 .