On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 03:29:35AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > But I think you're right... it's not about getting work done, it's about > > politics and a orwellian "all users are equal, DDs are more equal" nonsense. > > With every day passing by, it seems even more clearly to me that Debian has > > lost its basics and has turned into a project that prefer to deal with > > itself for that reason. And now it's even controlled by a venture > > capitalist. Great job, well done... :-( > You appear to be discussing some Debian that doesn't exist. In itself, > this isn't surprising - you appear to have spent a significant period of > time discussing a Debian that is only mildly related to the Debian that > most people appear to perceive. Your postings to debian-devel have > generally resulted in large quantities of noise and a complete absence > of useful conclusions.
Actually, I haven't seen a discussion resulting in any useful conclusion or result on d-d. > You're either a revolutionary arguing on the side of the largely silent > majority, or you're in a minority. In the first case, I'd suggest that > you engage in making it clearer that a large set of people agree with > you. In the latter case, I'd like to request that you stop. Your posts > are counter-productive - your style of argumentation repels those who > may have sympathy, and inflames those who already disagree with you. > Your current activities are accomplishing nothing. There is no advantage > to be gained in "I told you so" - instead, you merely delay us from > going anywhere. Ugh, sorry... I wasn't aware that it's *me* who is preventing the release from being done. When I would have known that, I never would have worked hard in the past weeks on the unofficial buildd network to bring down the backlog for mips (and tried for others). Silly me... > Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] IIRC, you're one of those Ubuntus, right? No more to be said then... -- Ciao... // Ingo \X/