* Pablo Lorenzzoni <spectra@debian.org> [2003-01-10 15:11]: > Em Sex 10 Jan 2003 14:37, Steve Langasek escreveu: >| Actually, the Social Contract says that our priorities are *our* users. >| Gentoo users are not our users, and I don't see any compelling reason to >| try to make them our users. Can you mold Debian into something that >| Gentoo users will like, without at the same time making it nearly >| worthless for enterprise users who depend on Debian's slow release cycle? > > But **our** users that try <put your non-Debian distro here> and like > some of its features are another matter. If **our** users like > something from another distro that **we can** provide, I don't see any > reason we shouldn't. Please leave me out of that **we** for I don't think that I can provide it (or rather want to, no interest). But you seem to feel strong about it, why don't you just start it? I guess noone will keep you from trying/doing it! You don't need the o.k. from other developers to do so, this is a free project. > Not recognizing that someone else from a non-Debian distro had a good > idea that we can use and improve is not a clever thing to do. Then _start_ using it instead of just talking about it!! >| The Social Contract also does not tell us that we must abdicate good >| judgement and blindly comply with user requests. Sometimes, the best way >| to serve our users is to show them why they're wrong. > > Come on... is it really that a big deal? It seem to be because you rather like to talk about it than just fscking doing it. >| Feel free to quote me outside -private. > Same for me. Well, now we are in debian-devel :) Have fun, Alfie -- Nachdem es SuSE nun endlich geschafft hat, Linux so sehr zu verunstalten, daß es schlechter als Windows ist, bootet es nun also sogar schon auf der Hardware von Microsoft. -- realborg zu <http://futurezone.orf.at/futurezone.orf?read=detail&id=129360>
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