Good evening You both are right. Thank you for your answers.
Matt Zimmerman was just telling me that free software is developed by volunteers and that they do what they'd like to do. Well, I knew. And also I knew that choosing Debian just an ideologic thing -- because it is really free. I just thought that there should be a way to bring free software to more people than only hard-core-developers. I thought that it too could be an aim to coordinate development to do more than just the things that are the most important for developers themselves (ISDN support if you want to use ISDN, UDF if you want to write a CD like a HD -- if it is complicated or not doesn't matter). But in my opinion free software fails if it is only for geeks. Why not try to coordinate development to make an easier installer? Why not bring to people what you are working for so hard? I'm sure that there are people that would like to make things simpler. I hope they will do so. However, my proposal may be forgotten and free software may look for its own little piece in world of hard core developers. I only hope that it won't and it will be shown to all J. S.s on this world that there is still an other, a free way -- and with working for users (not developers) you will hold what you are dreaming of in your "social contract". My services are offered. Yours Felix ----- Original Message ----- From: "Benoit Peccatte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-project@lists.debian.org> Cc: "Felix Steiner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 1:24 AM Subject: Re: Why "free" shouldn't have to mean "complicated" Le lun 05/05/2003 à 00:55, Matt Zimmerman a écrit : > On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 12:54:07AM +0200, Felix Steiner wrote: > > > 3. Debian: Took the whole lot of installation-steps but didn't arrive at an > > end. However -- it crashed at the end. > > The thing to do when you have a problem is to file a bug report. > debian-project is not the place for bug reports, especially for software > other than Debian. > > http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting > > contains instructions for reporting bugs. The package name to use in this > case is "boot-floppies". After such an answer I thing Felix will never come back and try free software. Not that your answer was not correct, it was. But he complains about things not working automatically and the only answer we can give him is "take your brain and your fingers and fill a bug report". Is debian (and other projects) becoming like the octopus-like administration ? "Got a problem, fill the yellow report", "To fill this report you need to fill the 1456B first" ... I think this is the last reason why the desktop-winwows-try-crash- reboot-retry people won't want to install linux. However I don't know how to address this.