2014/10/28 20:37 "Chris Bannister" <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz>:
>
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 08:07:50PM +0100, lee wrote:
> >
> > The point is that I was right and you were wrong. It wasn't right
> > of you to so strongly urge people to "take issues upstream". It's not
> > as easy to "faciliate change" as you seem to think.
>
> Now I know what the following joke means:
>
> "There is a man on his hands and knees searching around him. A man comes
> along and asks what is the problem. He says I've lost 10 dollars, so the
"I've lost my linux-based operating system distribution and community."
> man bends down and starts helping him look. After a while of futile
> searching the man says, hmmm, this isn't getting us anywhere; where did
> you lose it. The man replies, Further on up the road, but the light's
> better here."
>
> There's not much debian-user can do about facilitating change whether
> upstream is receptive or not.
I dunno. That sounds a little cynical to me.
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