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Re: About NM and Next Release



On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 04:21:42AM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 08:21:48 +0100
> Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > I don't think you're going to get it, either. It's basically the same
> > question as "Why do people write free software?", and if you come up
> > with "altruism", "politics", or "respect" then you're barking up the
> > wrong tree.
> 
> People contribute for many reasons, we dont need to define them.
> 
> All that matters is that if a person intends to be making an ongoing
> contribution to debian and they are trustworthy then they deserve to be
> a dd.

The relationship between these two things should be obvious.

> Membership is not about resources, its about community.

Bullshit. Our "community" consists of heckling each other until we get
it right. Membership is about doing the damn work; I guess that's a
form of "resources".

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