Dear Marc, Quoting Marc Haber (2026-02-21 20:38:10) > We lost our role of technical leadership two decades ago. Then we scared > off a sizeable part of our users by not releasing for years, and now we > are annoying another sizeable part of our users by relasing too often, > and now we need to reduce our user base even more by reducing the market > share of hardware we will run on? Is this a marketing campaign for > Ubuntu and Mint? > > >I am frustrated that Debian surrendered to non-free advocates, and I'm > >sure that frustration come out as "Debian is bad" and that this hurts. > >I am sorry for that. I felt hurt when the non-free-firmware decision > >were taken, and went on vacation from Debian and migrated to Trisquel. > >With Debian Libre I am exploring migrating back to Debian. > > I am frustrated that people want to reduce our market share, and that > people want our users to think that Debian is either "bad" or made by > people who have kind of lost touch to the world.
So to summarize, you are frustrated by a range of things orthogonal to each other, right? Because for sure when you describe... * People who want Debian to not release for years * People who want Debian released too frequently * People who want Debian to be usable on less hardware ...then they are *different* people, right? Because surely you cannot in good faith claim that all of those describe one group of people, and it is *because* that group wants to reduce Debian market share. Right? Please stop loading your frustrations onto someone who is exploring ways to _extend_ the market share of Debian (to use your terminology). _We_ evolved Debian into what it is today: A very flexible OS with potentials to please a wide range of users, including purists and pragmatists. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ * Sponsorship: https://ko-fi.com/drjones [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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