On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 01:08:17AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dimanche 21 mai 2006 à 15:55 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > If you have a reason to believe that the ftpmasters have *misjudged* the > > liability involved, > This is the whole point of the discussion. Not that I can see. Your preceding post focused on the *who* and the *how* of the decision, *not* on the what. > Indeed, they will bear the *primary* liability. However if legal action > is taken against them or our mirror operators because of their decision, > the whole distribution process might suffer, affecting all developers > and users. Er, of course we all might be affected by it, but the ftpmasters would be affected *way* more by getting sued than *we* would be affected by their getting sued, so I think it's ridiculously presumptuous to criticize the ftpmasters for lack of transparency here instead of trying to support them to make good decisions. > By reading your email, I feel you are acknowledging the fact the > ftp-masters cabal (I can't name it otherwise after seeing their behavior > IRL) is treating other developers as second-class contributors who > should just do as they say. No, I'm acknowledging that the ftpmasters have no obligation to do as *you* say. The ftp-masters aren't the ones trying to tell other people what to do in this thread. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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