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Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN



On 2006-04-21, Steve Lamb penned:
>
>     Because Debian sucks just as much.  What wins people over?  It
>     certai nly isn't "Oh, well, that can work if you do this and
>     this and this..."  Know what most do "Ok, fine, hi Bill, here's
>     another $300 for the pro edition this  3 years.  See you in 3
>     more."

Well, debian is pretty obvious about its purpose.  It's a link right
from the front page.  Maybe people should be choosing other distros if
they don't like bullet item number one of the social contract.  Debian
without the social contract would be just another distro.  In other
words, there would be no point to using debian without the contract.

>     And if more people are won over and stay here and start
>     demanding for the same from those developers stuff gets done.
>     1% ain't gonna cut it.  And  a subset of 1% certainly ain't
>     gonna cut it.

I don't even understand this paragraph.

-- 
monique

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