Hi Tollef, On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 09:50:05AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Kevin Mark > > | I too am aware of the existance of non-paid people but am unsure what > | catagory they are in: developers, local user group leaders, maintainers, > | translators... > > All of them. There are people who are very much part of the core team > and who make substantial improvements in Ubuntu who are volunteers. > One of them being Matthew Garrett. Hmm. I guess i'm confused as to who _is_ being paid and will have to investigate this further. Ubuntu is a FLOSS business and a FLOSS project, IIUC. I'm curious about how they interact, intersect and where they are seperate a la 'venn diagrams'. And of the feelings of paid vs non-paid participants in each. But I guess that is for an Ubuntu list. > > | I'd like this to happen but I guess maybe Ubuntu folks are scared > | off by our non-teletubby culture :-) > > Being civil to one another does not mean «being a teletubby» or not > having arguments. I guess that was an oversimplification of the differences but with Ubuntu being smaller and newer does allow it to have a tighter control on setting up and maintaining a culture that is closer to the <<ubuntu>> ideal. Debian was started by people who had a closer connection to RMS's and ESR's Pre-DOTCOM, hacker culture and 10+ years of folks being <<freer>> with their choice of communcation style. Obviously folks have started to become more interested in keeping tighter controls on what constitutes a <<civil discourse>> which may or may not be because of Ubuntu. I think its a good change as long as it doesn't stifle people from communicating at the expense of people feeling like <<one misspoke word>> and they're being expelled. cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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