Re: GR: Removal of non-free
On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 20:09:09 +0000, MJ Ray <mjr@dsl.pipex.com> said:
> On 2004-01-02 10:33:23 +0000 Emmanuel Charpentier
>> charpent@bacbuc.dyndns.org> wrote:
>> Because I somehow doubt that the current technical and social
>> infrastructures behind Debian "non-free" can be currently
>> duplicated "somewhere else".
> Debian did it. Why do you consider it impossible that someone else
> can duplicate that? Given what you said elsewhere about evidence,
Because, unlike you, I think that Debian is special, and
amazing, and so are the people who put it together. Such an
undertaking is not easily duplicated.
manoj
--
Unix is a lot more complicated (than CP/M) of course -- the typical
Unix hacker can never remember what the PRINT command is called this
week -- but when it gets right down to it, Unix is a glorified video
game. People don't do serious work on Unix systems; they send jokes
around the world on USENET or write adventure games and research
papers. Post "Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal", Datamation, 7/83
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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