Re: this post is not off-topic
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----- Original Message -----
From: "David Wright" <ichbin@shadlen.org>
To: "Manoj Srivastava" <srivasta@debian.org>
Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 9:16 AM
Subject: Re: this post is not off-topic
>
> Maoj,
>
> Nice of you to respond. Although your response seems rather overheated, I
> think it contains the core of a argument to which I can respond, so I'm
> going to try...
>
> > We have decided to release for 11 architectures, because that
> > pleases our muse.
>
> Point 4. of http://www.debian.org/social_contract says "Our Priorities are
> Our Users and Free Software". I think even you will agree that, prima
> facie, my argument for optimizing the greatest possible user good looks
> more consistent with these priorities than your statement above.
>
> Do you really believe that the Debian community should not "worry about
> the rate of return of our effort"? Your argument seems to be that we
> should not do so, because Microsoft does so (therefore it must be bad?).
>
> I think the Debian leadership made a mistake in its decision to support
> more architectures than Debian could without negatively impacting the
> mainstream base. Amid mounting criticism from the user base, the posture
> of many of those invested in that decision has been to adopt a cabal-like
> attitude ("this is our project and we deign to let you use it") rather
> than to try to reach out to the community. Frankly, your statement above
> is exemplary in this regard. I'm afraid that route will lead use away from
> the free-for-all, inclusive Linux world toward the high quality, but
> rather austere and unfriendly BSD world.
>
> > please collect the refunds at the door.
>
> I think you are wrong to dismiss me, and so many other Debian users like
> me, out of hand. I run a large number of Debian machines, including web,
> file, directory, and email servers, and a computation cluster. I report
> bugs regularly and work with maintainers to squash them. I participate in
> debian-user. I maintain a collection (http://www.metaconsultancy.com) of
> Debian-centric whitepapers. I would be happy to maintain packages, if one
> of the ones with which I am familiar were to become orphaned. If that
> doesn't make me a member of the Debian community with a legitimate
> interest in the direction Debian takes, then Debian already is a cabal.
>
>
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