Hello Everyone, On occasion we in Press receive emails from users that we interact with, mostly just a thank you that we can pass on or a comment about something. Recently, -off press, I have been corresponding with a few users and developers who have asked what Debian's stance was regarding the rumor Debian was about to issue a statement on the RMS situation. My response to inquires being, "At this particular time Debian has no commentary on the issue. Some individual Debian Developers have made clear their position, and there is ongoing discussion on the debian-vote mailing list which would start the procedure for a non technical statement as put forth in our constitution". Since then I've received a bit more correspondence from users and have had a few conversations with people, outside the wire if you will, on this topic and I've asked them if I could share their thoughts and feelings with this list to give some outside or additional perspective. As this list is public, many do not want to share their attributed input as they feel that they lack standing or do not wish to be publicly involved. So with some quotes and summary: "I love Debian for not being overly political while being self aware enough to challenge diversity." "If Debian really thought that in the current debate that there were technically issues, or some how its freedom to develop were under threat, then fair enough, get involved as an organisation in this issue. But if not, perhaps it is an unnecessary diversion ..." "… yet another diversion tactic employed by outside factors that engage nothing but fracturization toward a goal, I wonder which closed source system is really behind this $upport for this outrage." "This is pretty petty, isn't Debian already living in a glass house?" "I guess where I'm coming from is that I like the idea that part of what made free software development great was that coders didn't get diverted by political issues (unless some tangible narrower political aspect threatened direct developer interest) [1]." "This doesn't affect quality or bullseye right?" [1] Gabrielle Coleman, Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking, p. 22, 42 -EOF Be well, -Donald -- -- - ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Donald Norwood ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ B7A1 5F45 5B28 7F38 4174 ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ D5E9 E5EC 4AC9 BD62 7B05
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