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Re: If Debian's too radical for you... [was: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels]



On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:13:05 +1100, Matthew Palmer
<mpalmer@debian.org> wrote:
>On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 10:29:35AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
>> On Thursday 24 March 2005 03:40, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
>> > If the free software fanatics succeed in kicking non-free from being
>> > supported by Debian assets, such that the FSF documentation were no
>> > longer available, I'd probably end up agreeing with you and probably
>> > would do what you are considering to do after sarge ships.
>> >
>> > If it would help, I'd ask you to reconsider.  If all the reasonable
>> > moderates leave, then all that will be left will be the extremists.
>> 
>> Of course an option is always to fork the project.  Maybe it's time to have a 
>> Debian project that focusses on getting software released as opposed to the 
>> Debian that wants to be fanatic.
>
>"Some would say that this has already happened".  Not a fork, per se, but
>Ubuntu's licencing policy (and the general level-headedness of the people I
>know who are deeply involved in it) suggests that it may be the refuge you
>seek.

Is it as easy to participate with Ubuntu as it is with Debian?

Greetings
Marc

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