On Tue, 2017-05-16 at 02:17 +0200, Stéphane Aulery wrote: [...] > Yes, Debian is a community like another, and a community is build > with shared principles. Design isn't principle, it is just a shameful > exploitation of the idea of beauty, serving a precise purpose which > is not a shared principle. Wanting to do the number is not and should > never be a goal of Debian. > > Debian say claim to be "The universal operating system". It should not > be > understood that it is used by everyone but that is generalist > and at the service of all. > > Design and advertising are one and the same, manipulating the mind > through > the image to obtain consent. We are stuck in this rotten atmosphere > since > the interwar period. Please tell me this is satire. Because if this is serious, this is seriously rude and dismissive toward everyone in Debian who thinks and works at a higher level than hacking on code. It's not all about the code. Design matters. So does creating a community where all kinds of contributions are valued. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Experience is directly proportional to the value of equipment destroyed. - Carolyn Scheppner
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