Re: Why Debian
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 04:55:50PM -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
> Mark kept threatening to shut down the email-based User list for
> some time. At least that is what the moderators kept telling us.
Do you mean listmasters here? Otherwise, the last bit doesn't make
sense. IOW, if there are moderators then the list is moderated.
> Then when several of us old timers brought up the "lens" shopping
> thingie they told us that it was not a "technical issue".
But it isn't. Technically, there is nothing wrong with it. Socially, now
that's another story.
> Some us
> figured/argued that it was indeed a technical issue, then the entire
> list became moderated.
Because the discussion couldn't be resolved? Remember, there are people
employed at Canonical who don't want to bite the hand that feeds them.
At least with Debian there is no company agenda pushing any of the
decisions which Debian takes.
Anyway, let's not get involved with another distros policies/agenda.
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