Re: Discussion - non-free software removal
>>"Emile" == Emile van Bergen <emile-deb@evbergen.xs4all.nl> writes:
Emile> Hi,
Emile> On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 02:18:16PM +0000, Steven Fuerst wrote:
>> The debian project has to realise it has users and upstream maintainers
>> as well as the people who create packages. Your GR totally ignores this
>> fact.
Emile> Amen. We've /got/ to realise that serving the users is in the end the
Emile> only goal.
Actually, I reject this premise. I am most certainly not in
this for altruistic reasons; I would never have lasted this long, or
worked so hard, for that.
Debian is geared to provide *ME* with a system I can
use. ME. ME. Helping like minded people is a bonus; other users are
just a happy happenstance.
I am interested in creating the best. most useful
distribution of Linux; since I need one; I scratch my itch, and in
collaboration with other people scratching theirs, we have a halfway
decent system. These other people are important to me, and it is
important to me that the Debian system fulfill their needs, and
requirements, so they continue to work to improve the machines I use
for work and pleasure.
End users are rarely on my radar. Collaborative users, who
help improve my software, and my system, and make things better all
around, by finding bugs, making suggestions, providing patches --
them I'll nurture,, again, from purely selfish, niggardly, ulterior
motives.
I always suspect people who claim to be operating from
selfless, pure, altruistic reasons; since that goes against human
nature; and not many people are that altruistic. Even when they are,
they are mere dilletantes, and rarely have the staying power that I
need from the vendor providing my machines OS.
manoj
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