Re: I am leaving Debian
On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, DAVID B. TEAGUE wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Bruce Perens wrote:
>
> > There was some question on this list yesterday regarding whether I
> > would leave Debian. It is indeed true. I will remain as president of
> > SPI and will redirect SPI's mission to be for all free software rather
> > than just for Debian. I'm sorry it had to be this way, but I feel that
> > my mission to bring free software to the masses really isn't
> > compatible with Debian any longer, and that I should be working with
> > one of the more mainstream Linux distributions.
>
> Bruce
>
> I am one of the users in the trences who appreciates your work for
> Debian. You have provided decisions when decisions needed to be made.
> Your decisions have appeared to me to be thoughtful and wise.
>
> Your departure causes me pause. I appeal to you not to leave Debian.
> If you do leave, I wish you the very best that life has to offer.
>
Bruce will sorely be missed by us. His departure will indeed make people
re-evaluate whether Debian is stable enough to operate or one should
indeed be looking for products controlled in the Red Hat manner.
The question I ask myself is how far will the net-based distributioon go
before personality problems overcome it. I guess its a philosophical
question and as a Christian I cannot help but think of the Tower of Babel,
did God confuse the people or were they overcome by their limitations?
Well Bruce thank you for taking Debian this far. It would not be same
without your tiresome work. If you do join another distributions, please
let us know. It may be worth our try.
Good luck and God bless you,
-Daniel
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Electrical Engineering daniel@comgate.ee.uct.ac.za
University of Cape Town http://www.ee.uct.ac.za/~daniel
Rondebosch, 7700, S. Africa (w) 27+21+650 2816 (h) 27+21+705 1233
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