On Sun, 26 Oct 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: > If you are new to Debian, please don't make the mistake I made. This is a > closed > software project, where you are allowed to contribute only if you surcome to > the > personal agenda of the current leadership. This is the structure and model of > the > project, make no bones about it.
I am a developer, albeit a fringe developer in that I do not maintain many packages or any mainstream packages. I became a developer to give something back to Debian as I and my department (economics, not the institute below) uses the Debian distribution more and more every day. I have not always agreed on the management technique, but Debian is a volunteer organization. It is large. It is not perfect. Inherent in any organization of this nature is disagreement and the need for some subset of volunteers to have a final say. Otherwise nothing would be accomplished. Overall I am immensely pleased with Debian. I was openly and freely admitted as a developer and will leave when and if I decide I do not agree with the direction Debian is headed. There are many linux distributions including Debian that all have their advantages and disadvantages. Debian is no exception. We are all free to choose among them. New users, old users, new developers, etc. - please make the above judgments for yourself. I cannot find any logic in Mr. Cinege's attacks on the Debian project and am at a loss to why he expends so much effort abusing something he seems to dislike. I assume that I am missing parts of his arguments as some discussions were in private and therefore I am not fully informed. However, that is irrelevant. These skirmishes have never affected me in any way nor in the way that I approach the organization and use the distribution. I am thrilled with Debian and, with a lot of help from Dirk Eddelbuettel, have easily convinced my department Debian is stable enough to switch from AIX to Debian/GNU Linux for all applications. Colin Telmer. -- Colin Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Policy Studies Building, Room 309, Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L-3N6 (613)545-6000x4219 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://terrapin.econ.queensu.ca> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .