On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 02:14:33PM +0200, Jan Niehusmann wrote: > On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 12:59:53PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > But we were just talking about respect here, not about procedures. So > > care to explain why I don't get respect in the Debian community and I > > do get respect in the GNU community? > > I assume you have been active in the GNU community for a while. So > the people there know you for your contributions and you gained their > respect. > > OTOH, most people in the debian community only know your postings to > debian-devel, which where not exactly well suited to gain respect. It's about 1.5 years ago that I installed the Hurd and I'm on the Hurd mailinglists for a year and 2 month now. I haven't been active in the GNU community before that. It's just that there is a different between *having respect* and *treating somebody with respect*. IMHO even if you don't know anybody you have to treat him/her with respect. At least that what they learned me. And about my contributions, if I remember correctly the only thing I did are some fixed to oskit-mach and the OSKit. But I have read a lot about the Hurd and other things so I know where I'm talking about, it's just that it takes a lot of time to understand the Hurd and all the different issues around it. With doing this I learned that a lot of thing I'm annoyed with on GNU/Linux are just bugs in the design (if you can speak of a design at all). Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber ID: jdekkers@jabber.org IRC ID: jeroen@openprojects GNU supporter - http://www.gnu.org
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