Dave Cinege: > You just don't get it. Debian is not supposed to be a company!!! > Debian is supposed to be the efforts of it's developers! When > you say Debian Inc should do xxxxxx, you're not saying the devs > should do it but the few (one?) guys directly in charge of Debian > Inc.
This is the last email I'll spend on this issue. Of course debian is the result of the efforts of it's developpers. But it is a joint effort. It is coordinated, and people divide tasks among them. The `guys directly in charge of Debian Inc.' are democratically chosen by the developpers. Debian is not a company in which the leadership decides what the developpers do, the developpers assign the `leadership' certain tasks. After some time, the `leaders' are re-elected, or not. Pure anarchism is rarely a good system to get anything done. Anyone can stand up and make a CD. That's OK. In the same way that the distribution is put together, an official CD is put together. It is important that this CD is known to originate from the debian developpers, as some kind of (limited) certification to the outside world that it is a well tested CD. > >> B) The distribution should not change to suite the needs of cookie cutters. > >The distribution hasn't changed to suit the needs of any cookie > >cutter. Only the naming scheme. This is a minor detail. > > This is why there have ben how many changes to 1.3.1, and it's still called > 1.3.1? That is an error you can criticize. It was not done on purpose, and therefore you cannot claim it is a severe flaw in the policy. > Does the word frozen mean anything to you? Ice cubes. Eric Meijer -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax +31 40 2455054 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .