Re: choice

[Kevin Mark <kevin.mark@verizon.net>]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 09:39:06PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
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> steef wrote:
> > dvd+rw-tools: .....allways success. just curious after all the things
> > schily writes on his website about wodim ao. am a kind of practical.
> > found out that schily's latest beta of cdrecord on my machine gives
> > unsurmountable problems: destroyed without a warning two brandnew
> > cdroms. the last point is the immediate reason for asking.
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> You gave the answer yourself. I don't know about cdrecord vs wodim etc.,
> but what Schily writes about debian is plainly not true. He changed the
> license to be incompatible with DFSG, so debian didn't have another
> choice but to fork.
> 
> - From his website:
> > Key people from Debian are paid for their work on Debian (see here)
> > and for this reason do no longer represent community interests but
> > the commercial interests of their investors.
> 
> That's plainly not true. Two release managers were paid for one month
> each last year (causing controversy). They were paid by money from
> debian's project leader and they are no longer paid. I can't see any
> indication that they are or ever were following commercial interests of
> any kind.
The intention of the payment was for the express purpose of them working
on Debian and being able to avoid distractions like needing to work for
a commercial interest. Most folks work on Debian is measured in single
hours per day, so this was a chance for the 2 folks to spend a whole
week on tasks involving release management.
cheers,
Kev
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