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Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor



On Friday 10 Dec 2004 15:24, Wouter Verhelst wrote:

> > Which is a fine point of view if you are making a political point. But as
> > far as I am aware we are trying to make an operating system.
>
> Sure. So we should not censor ourselves.

I don't see how that follows from what I said.


Here's a couple of examples:

We don't agree with censorship, so anything packageable goes in the 
distribution. This means we have a number of worthless and crufty packages 
that no-one uses and our time to release is getting ever longer. We also end 
up with packages that offend many people and may even cause legal problems 
for our distributors.

We "clarify" the DFSG just prior to an intended release and nearly derail the 
whole release in the process.

We are soon to refuse to ship binary firmware blobs when the writing is quite 
clearly on the wall that this is going to be something more and more people 
will have to deal with in the years to come.


Do you see why it seems like Debian is more of a political talking shop that a 
team trying to develop an operating system?

I don't want to start a flame war and I will probably not reply to this thread 
any longer, but the latest discussions on debian-devel have pushed me to the 
edge of resigning from this project.



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