On Friday 10 Dec 2004 15:24, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Which is a fine point of view if you are making a political point. But as > > far as I am aware we are trying to make an operating system. > > Sure. So we should not censor ourselves.
I don't see how that follows from what I said. Here's a couple of examples: We don't agree with censorship, so anything packageable goes in the distribution. This means we have a number of worthless and crufty packages that no-one uses and our time to release is getting ever longer. We also end up with packages that offend many people and may even cause legal problems for our distributors. We "clarify" the DFSG just prior to an intended release and nearly derail the whole release in the process. We are soon to refuse to ship binary firmware blobs when the writing is quite clearly on the wall that this is going to be something more and more people will have to deal with in the years to come. Do you see why it seems like Debian is more of a political talking shop that a team trying to develop an operating system? I don't want to start a flame war and I will probably not reply to this thread any longer, but the latest discussions on debian-devel have pushed me to the edge of resigning from this project.
