By the way, you left a large portion of my mail unrebutted. Please address these points. (The doubly-indented stuff is you, of course). > Message-ID: <[🔎] 87vgfbhna4.fsf@becket.becket.net> > Why not look at whether the views being pushed are consonant with the > goals of the Debian Project? > Message-ID: <[🔎] 87r8pzhmvr.fsf@becket.becket.net> > Well, saying the GPL sucks is, generally, contrary to the Debian > Projects goals. Debian is essentially neutral on "free software" v. > "open source". Debian is in favor of quality control and assurance > technologies. > [...] > So let's call this new package "debian-political". It has whatever > political messages Debian has chosen to put in its archive. It goes > in main; if it gets too big, we can split it into parts. Of course, > we would not print just anything in debian-political: if a political > message is greatly offensive to Debian, we would not want to carry it. > The right place for the emacs manual is then in the debian-political > package. > Why, particularly, does the Debian Project need to undertake the duties > of a newspaper's editorial board? Furthermore, who would comprise this > editorial board? Shall we ordain and establish a Ministry of Truth? > Should it consist of the entire Project? The entire Project is bound to > disagree about a great many political issues. We ask that people abide > by the Social Contract in doing work for the Debian Project upon > entrance into our ranks. We do not demand compliance with an > ideological orthodoxy. Shall we purge our ranks of those who utter > assertions like "the GPL sucks"? Or shall we simply disenfranchise them > of participation in our Ministry? -- G. Branden Robinson | One man's theology is another man's Debian GNU/Linux | belly laugh. branden@debian.org | -- Robert Heinlein http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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