A little consideration, please?

[Bruce Perens <bruce@debian.org>]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I am going to drive tomorrow to Santa Cruz (from Berkeley) to participate
in a meeting for Debian. I told you about the common ABI for all i386
Unix systems a week or so ago, and a lot of you thought it was a good idea.
That's what it is about.

I am driving about 100 (non-deductable) miles each way and am giving up
one of my vacation days for this, just as I am giving up vacation days
to speak at the IN Conference in Germany. I gave up vacation days to speak
at Linux Expo, too.

I put in a lot for Debian. In return, I would like you to:

1. Please don't use profanity on the newsgroups.

2. Please don't start with the assumption that I am a corporate robber
   baron whenever you argue about Debian policy.

3. Please try to accept that policy decisions have already been discussed
   by the people who do the work, and that we may have put some thought
   into this. We welcome your input, but please don't assume we are idiots.

There is a limited time in which I can continue to put in this much work
for Debian. Eventually, we'll decide to have a baby, and I will probably
be too busy to be project leader. I would prefer to stay with the project
in some capacity until that time. You can help by not being so difficult to
deal with.

	Thanks

	Bruce
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