On 9/15/22 8:33 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Chuck Zmudzinski <brchu...@netscape.net> writes: > >> To put it in the most brief terms, I come to that conclusion based on >> what many people are telling me: Debian maintainers cannot fix bugs in >> software because they are just volunteers. That explains why I almost >> always am at least annoyed by one or two bugs when running Debian >> software, and sometimes after an update the computer is totally unusable >> until I can debug it and find the fix, because volunteers don't have the >> time to do it for me. That is what most everyone on debian-user is >> telling me. Do you disagree with what they say? > >> Also, in my experience, these bugs and catastrophic failures caused by >> updates of a supposedly stable release happened *much* less often when I >> used software that is written by paid developers. > > So let's see if I've got this right. You don't like Debian's governance > structure or its constitution. You don't like that it's a volunteer > project. You think the software is lower-quality than software maintained > by paid developers. It has a bunch of bugs that annoy you that you don't > think you can get fixed. And you don't feel welcome in the community. > > You... do realize that you can just not use Debian, right? It's okay to > use another Linux distribution that suits you better! This is an entirely > consensual relationship! We won't make you use Debian, I promise! > > I'm all for sticking around and trying to fix things that you think are > broken, but these aren't some minor disagreements. These are some really > foundational mismatches. You seem to like Debian except for... literally > everything about how the project is organized and run. > > There are a lot of other Linux distributions out there with different > philosophies and different organizations, and it's not some sort of > betrayal to go look at a different one. No one wants you to be unhappy > and frustrated, including everyone involved in Debian! > > You could, for example, go give Red Hat money and then get that higher > quality software from paid developers that you want. They'll give you a > support contract and you can tell them what bugs you want fixed, and > they'll give you a quote, and you can give them money, and they'll fix the > bugs that you want fixed, and you can stop investing all this time and > effort in writing extremely long mail mesages to volunteers to convince > them that volunteering is bad, actually. > > Or maybe the problem is that you want to be able to tell people what to > do, but you don't want to have to pay them? If so, uh, good luck with > that! >
I am sorry you misunderstand me. Please stop putting words in my mouth. Let me speak for myself. I don't need you to tell me what I think about Debian. I know what I think about Debian. You obviously do not. Best regards, Chuck