Re: There is no choice

[Jeff Bauer <jwbauer@charter.net>]

On 09/20/2014 04:20 PM, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Sep 2014, lee wrote:
> > These few people are also very concerned with preventing other people,
> > particularly users, from doing something which would contribute to
> > what they claim that they are doing.
> Exactly how are Debian Developers preventing others from contributing?
>
> Almost everything we do is publicly available. Nothing is stopping
> anyone from contributing to Debian, proposing patches, or even forking
> Debian entirely if you want.
>
> In all of these separate threads, you have been doing little but
> maligning people who are volunteering for Debian. It's not a nice thing
> to do, it's not pleasant to read, and in doing so, you're actively
> draining existing contributor's desire to continue working on Debian.
>
> Please stop.
And your reply, Don, had the end-of-message quote:

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves
exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves
only the unanimity of the graveyard.
 -- Justice Roberts in 319 U.S. 624 (1943)


Interesting. Very interesting.

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