Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

[Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net>]

On 9/3/14, Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> wrote:
> Le 02/09/2014 19:03, Lisi Reisz a écrit :
>> On Tuesday 02 September 2014 17:06:58 Steve Litt wrote:
>>> So, Lisi, is it your contention that the developers don't look at this
>>> list, and don't care what's written on it?
>> By and large, yes.  If you want to communicate with developers,
>> communicate
>> with developers.  Some of them hang around here.  But it is not the way to
>>
>> communicate with them.  Don't deafen poor defenseless users. This list is
>> for
>> support of users, not the lobbying of developers.  There are other lists.
>
> It's not lobbying it is expressing an opinion. So which lists are you
> speaking of ?

Are you not aware of the debian developers email mailing
list?

And I think it is lobbying, and I think that list is much
more appropriate!

> Do you say that debian developpers are in another world
> and do not give a dman about users ?
>
> In that case that's bad news for debian...

Hypothetical question, then a take down of your own
question?

I think that's a straw man. I shall ignore it for now.


>> For now, the decision has been taken.  You may be right, it may be a bad
>> decision.  But those in favour may be right, and it may turn out to be a
>> good
>> one.  Anyhow, it is now fait accompli.
> Not on the subject of this thread

Yes it is!


>> Do stop bellyaching to no avail.  If you feel that Lennart should be
>> stopped,
>> find a way of stopping him.  But this is not it.
> Please read the article pointed by the OP.

It's good that you asked with a please.