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How to create High Quality Free Software

Eloy A. Paris wrote:
> 
> Fortunately, Debian is both _entirely_free_software_ and _high_
> quality.

Have this happened by chance?
I don't think so.

We all know that the greatness of RMS is in the definition of Free
Software; I think that his limit is in not having defined "how" to
create Free Software.

Linus did.
Maybe not wilfully, he demonstrated a method for creating High Quality
Free Software. Its main peculiarity is that it works _only_ and
_only_if_ the product is Free Software, from the beginning.

Debian follows this method in the development of its distribution and
because of this it can't give up its "full free software" essence.

With the DFSG we have asserted what is Free Software for Debian.
Maybe now it's time to assert also the "method" that Debian is using to 
create its High Quality Free Software Distribution.

These two assertions together would clearly show that there's nothing
"religious" in our claim of "freeness".

Fabrizio
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P.S.: If you don't know what I am talking about when I'm speaking of
such method, please read        
http://www.ccil.org/~esr/writings/cathedral.html
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