Re: Non-Constitutional Voting Procedure
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Jordi Mallach wrote:
> > Ah yes, the public disagrees with me, so it must be the
> > uninformed, unwashed masses who don't know what's good for them. Can
> > you feel the cedibility dropping?
>
> No. There's nothing wrong if someone feels dissapointed if "no" wins by 80%.
> It would mean that a brutal majority of the Debian developers care little
> about the politics of the Project. I would not find that result very
> amusing, that's for sure.
>
Hi. I'm not a Debian developer (yet :), but I've got to say that that is
a very illogical claim.
It is entirely consistent to believe very strongly in the creation of a
completely free operating system, but at the same time to believe that
*pragmatically*, the best way to achieve widespread use of this OS is
by keeping around a few packages of non-free software, until the free
alternatives are clearly *better*.
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Peter Eckersley
(pde@cs.mu.oz.au)
http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~pde
for techno-leftie inspiration, take a look at
http://www.computerbank.org.au/
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