On Monday 22 September 2014 18:03:20 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 11:13:10AM -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > > On 9/22/2014 10:55 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 11:31:57AM -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > > >> Obviously it is important enough to enough users that it continues > > >> here. And shutting people up is not going to make the problem go away. > > >> It will, however, make users go away. I, for one, am looking at > > >> other systems now. And I think it is highly likely this path will > > >> force another fork of Debian, as occurred when Ubuntu forked. > > > > > > Oh Please! There are plenty of Debian derivatives. No doubt there will > > > always be derivatives, but your insinuation that these derivatives > > > occur because of problems within Debian, is incorrect. Please stop > > > spreading FUD! > > > > And why are there derivatives? Because someone didn't like something > > about Debian. To them there was a problem. > > Have you got any link to back this up. My understanding is that someone > creates a derivative because Debian is a good starting point - someone > has already done all the hard work -- all the derivatives have to do is > a few config changes add some eye candy and voila! :) OK, it may not be > that simple but hopefully you get my point.
Mark Shuttleworth created Ubuntu because he wanted to give away a free linux system to spread the use of Linux. He used Debian because he _did_ like it, not because he didn't. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201409221857.03600.lisi.re...@gmail.com