Re: expiry announcement
Whatever. This is getting us nowhere. On DD I've been trying to be the
peacemaker, I guess I should try it here. We now return you to your
regularly scheduled flamefest.
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 03:14:17PM -0700, John Galt wrote:
> > > It is comments like this from people like you that scare companies
> > > away from working with Debian. Progeny is committed to doing its
> >
> > If they're involved in trying to undermine Debian in the process, they can
> > go to Hell. Stormix and Corel made Debian-based distributions, did either
> > of them get any flaming from me? I was here. They both contain non-free,
> > did you hear anythiing from me? They had employees actively participate
> > in the Debian process, did you hear anything from me? They proposed
> > ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^ strike that, they didn't propose divisive
> > GRs. Hmmmmmm: you think?
>
> John's proposal has NOTHING to do with Progeny, though he did propose it
> there as well. John's stance against non-free is long-standing and has
> been well-known from a time long before John worked for Progeny - in fact
> long before Progeny existed.
>
> I could expect some clueless newbie making blind accusations without even
> a hint of background information or fact to support them. Reading it from
> someone who should know better is disappointing.
>
>
> You know what the big difference between Corel, Stormix, and Progeny is?
> How many of the people working on Corel Linux are Debian developers,
> active or otherwise? Not many. Stormix? A couple more, but the obvious
> examples have actually left the company for one reason or another.
> Progeny Debian is being produced entirely by people involved with Debian.
> We all use it, we all support it, and we all hack on it in various ways.
>
> How much of Storm or Corel's work has gone back into Debian? Very little.
> Most of what they've done has been completely useless outside their own
> distributions. From Progeny, how's dexter just for a start? That's what
> Progeny does. Removing non-free from Debian? John's on his own there.
>
>
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