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Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge



On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 09:08:00AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> writes:
> 
> > Personally, I'm still trying to decide myself what is going to happen
> > with Debian.  Is it a bunch of fanatics who are more interested in
> > philosophy than technology, in which case it is an open question
> > whether the next release of Debian stable will happen before or after
> > a stable, usable version of the Hurd, or is it something more than
> > that?  Only time will tell.
> 
> The goal of Debian is to have an excellent free operating system.
> 
> All three adjectives: excellent, free, and operating, are
> non-negotiable.  We will not sell out the second because you want us
> to think it's a disaster if one or two fonts don't meet it.

Excellent, free, operating --- but we may never get around to
releasing it?  That was precisely my point.

						- Ted



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