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Re: Debian needs more buildds. It has offers. They aren't being accepted.



Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org> writes:

> On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:35:47AM +0100, Ingo Juergensmann wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 06:55:40PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > > That would be the "I'm taking my bat and ball and going home" method of
> > > playing well with others, yes?  That's not everyone's natural response,
> > 
> > Well, you can argue as well that the rejection is a sign of not honoring
> > Goswins work for the project and that further investment of his work, time,
> > machines and money would be a rip off to him, because he isn't wanted in the
> > project, but the project itself want his resources nevertheless. 
> 
> You could argue that, assuming you knew the reason for the rejection and
> that it was spurious.  I don't know the reason for the rejection, and
> therefore I'm not going to start talking about ripping off.
> 
> Goswin is, of course, free to not contribute to the project any more for any
> reason - rejection, acceptance (a la Groucho Marx), or because that's what
> his tea leaves told him to do.  I was merely providing a view alternative to
> Marc's.
> 
> - Matt

I'm taking a middle ground. I still use and care for debian so
investing something is still for my own benefit. But I'm reducing that
considerably, including planed money investments and hardware
donations.

MfG
        Goswin



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