Re: Leadership, effects on Debian and open source community
--On Wed, Dec 2, 1998 6:34 pm -0800 "Joseph Carter" <knghtbrd@debian.org>
wrote:
>> > And we'll just compromise our morals, our commitment, and our
>> > credibility away. Congratulations Debian, you're the next Eric
Raymond.
>> > Well meaning and with high principles, but ready to compromise whenever
>> > we think we need to. I cannot find this acceptable in any way, shape,
>> > or form.
>>
>> I'm confused by you here. What is your suggestion? We don't compromise,
>> and hence chuck out TeX and apache?
>
> If we are saying from the outset we will accept things we'd prefer not to
> have as we do now, it's different than if we decide to adopt something
which
> DOESN'T have provision for it and then take things that don't fit it.
>
> I'm not real hot on saying one thing and doing another.
Ah. No, that's not what I was advocating. I was simply wishing to say out
loud that I agreed with Ian in so far as I don't like the patch clause or
the advertising clause. I am certainly *not* in favour of saying one thing
and doing another (and I am probably not in favour of deprecating the patch
clause or the advertising clause).
Jules
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