On September 22, 2011 05:54:02 PM Adam Borowski wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 05:14:32PM -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > > Hi Bruce, > > > > >> > I hope Debian would honour the Social Contract and put the needs of > > >> > the users ahead of software freeness concerns in that case. > > >> > > >> Do we have a name for the DFSG equivalent of Godwin's Law? Because > > >> you just failed it. > > > > > > Well, that's disappointing... called a Nazi for daring to explore the > > > possibilities. <sigh> > > > > I think you misread what Steve was saying. When you were calling out > > those who are concerned about software free-ness, you were calling > > them "Nazis". Steve was not calling you a Nazi. > > I for one parsed his statement as: > > In any discussion that involves the line "Our priorities are our users > and free software", someone will use the first half to completely > disregard the second and say anything non-free is ok as long as it > might be useful to an user.
All I got out of it was: Who's this joker telling me, who has been using Debian unstable pretty much exclusively since 1995, filing bug reports, taking part in discussions, etc., that I don't care about software freeness. The most reasonable assumption to make of anyone participating in a Debian mailing list is that they do care. He did get something right--I probably am part of a minority... GPLed stuff should be in the non-free archive. ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201109231311.28681.bms...@shaw.ca