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Re: Debian instructions contradictory?



> *START RANT HERE*
> 
> Everyone has an opinion.  As Debian is developed, organised, and debuged by a 
> large group of volunteers.  As you can imagine it is an incredible amount of 
> work for someone to do in their spare time, no matter how skilled they may be. 
>  Sometimes documentation becomes out of date, or must be written in a hurry.  
> Some areas of the website are partially incomplete or slightly out of date.  
> they remain this way until someone involved with Debian (me, you, a developer, 
> or just about anyone else who may care) decides to do something about it.  
> Debian people are notorious for being individualistic and self reliant.  They 
> do work on Debian for no other reason than they feel that it is the right 
> thing to do.  The help you are recieving on this list is given to you for 
> free, and voluntarily by people who are under no obligation to give you the 
> time of day (unless they maintain a time server at work).  ALMOST NO ONE IS 
> GETTING PAID AND NO ONE IS PAID BY DEBIAN FOR ANYTHING.  We like to hear from, 
> and to help, other users.
> 
> *STOP RANT*
> 

perfectly understandable rant, but was it really necessary? i didn't really 
think their question was deserving of something so... harsh? good blow against
ppl who think debian owes them something and i fully agree but still, perhaps 
a more appropriate time to bring it up would have been good.



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