On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 05:31:27PM +1000, Drake Diedrich wrote: > I think this is a plot to make Debian less useful to a percentage > (between 5% and 95%) of the userbase Are you serious? > in order to create a larger market > niche for a new Debian-based distribution. Probably Microsoft Debian. Well, if you're going to trot out a conspiracy theory, how about identifying as your culprit Progeny Linux, the new company with which John Goerzen has recently taken a position? Progeny is headed by Ian Murdock, the founder of Debian and not someone about whom I am accustomed to hearing testimonals on lack of integrity. You want a conspiracy theory? Roll with it, man. Full steam ahead. Let's see if you end up making any sense at all. > It'll also sabotage the bug tracking system and a distributed package pool. Sabotage the BTS? How? Will all my XFree86 bugs be closed if this proposal is implemented (actually, that might almost be a blessing, and therefore my support of the proposal as amended must be suspect :) )? How will a "distributed" package pool be disrupted by such a thing? If a package pool is "distributed", can't it be "distributed" across hosts including those not managed by Debian, as long as the administrators of those hosts work with us cooperatively? -- G. Branden Robinson | Experience should teach us to be most on Debian GNU/Linux | our guard to protect liberty when the branden@ecn.purdue.edu | government's purposes are beneficent. roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | -- Louis Brandeis
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