On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 12:31:33AM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > Given that this hasn't reached the required number of seconds for a > discussion period to start, and it's been three weeks since the initial > mail, are you happy for this to be dropped? Yes. By now it's just plain too late; and given the lack of seconds, I do not see it useful to still try to push this forward. Having said that, there is one thing I still want to comment on: during the discussion, Ross Burton suggested that this kind of statements is not what Debian should be doing; that this is something more appropriate for the FSF. I for one do not think the FSF should have a monopoly on opinion within the free software community. Although I have respect for what the FSF is and what they have accomplished, I am not a member or a fellow or any such thing of the FSF, and I have my reasons for that (though those are outside the scope of this discussion). I do think that the Debian project is an important citizen in the free software community, and as such that we have a right and a duty to tell others in the community when they are straying off the path. This can be the mozilla project, but could just as well be any other organization; indeed, on occasion we've even disagreed about freedom with the FSF itself (remember the FDL?). If we indeed refuse to make statements about other projects, then we, as a project, will collectively be putting our head in the sand; and I do not think that is the right attitude--not now, and not for any future similar situations we might encounter. -- <Lo-lan-do> Home is where you have to wash the dishes. -- #debian-devel, Freenode, 2004-09-22
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