-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hello, I wish to make some positive comments, which I hope will help. I am a long term user of Debian. I am not a maintainer, and am not on the debian-devel list, and so I am not sure if this letter will actually get onto the list. If it does not, please would one of you post it onto the list for me? Please also reply to me personally, not just to the list. I have read about these problems in debian-news. I was horrified when I downloaded some of the discussion from debian-devel. I don't understand some of the things said, because they are written in American. But I gleaned sufficient to see that all is not good! I am a scientist, working in a broad range of disciplines. I first learnt to program computers in 1969. I have used a vast range of different computers and operating systems, and have programmed in well over thirty different languages. I have been using Debian for a few years now; upgrading gradually as I see fit. I first found it on the Higher Education National Software Archive (HENSA) in Britain. Debian is far and away the best operating system, and software suite, that I have used in thirty years. It has never once let me down through the last few years of intensive usage. I have found it easy to install, and very easy to configure for my own particular needs. The vast wealth of documentation has ensured this. All of the thousands of people who have developed this software, and all of the Debian developers who have packaged and maintained it, have done so as unpaid volunteers in their own time, and at their own expense. The quality of your work is outstanding. All of you should be justly proud of your achievements in giving all this to the World. My thanks go out to all of you. For all of you who have provided Debian, to quarrel now is mere folly. Please forget each other's angry words. All of you have earned the respect of a mass of users around the world. Insults are meaningless, and futile. Best wishes, Helen McCall E-Mail: helen@dinoflagellate.demon.co.uk Tel: 01752 342675 Fax: 08700 525850 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQBVAgUBN9Gow1Mqn7SXFft1AQEQSwH/bJVmW+dmyGh7f37RL+LB8oQsTW7MRuXN +35/0izh1txU5+ryYohzrYzyQD+NY6XzhFTVASxRmf2dleAhdAIJxw== =y8NA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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