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 Sometimes documentation becomes out of date, or must be written in a hurry.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 Some areas of the website are partially incomplete or slightly out of date.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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