Hello Gonzalo, Thank you for your email and your concerns and opinions. Let me re-assure you that our users and the free software are our highest priorities.
However, to answer your question in the subject line, no, you cannot vote in this resolution as only Debian Members are allowed to vote. If you wish to contribute to Debian Project and eventually be allowed to participate in its governance, please consider contributing to Debian and eventually going through New Member process to become a Debian Member. Regards, Dimitri. On 17 October 2014 17:49, Gonzalo Velasco C. <gonzalo.velasc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Debian friends, > I am not a (registered) part of the team, so I can't vote for the proposal > in https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2014/10/msg00001.html > > But, I'm an user with ~15 computers at the university and home, running 80% > of them some Debian derivative (SolydXK, MiniNo, Ubuntu, Xubuntu). And more > important than that, I am a GNU/Linux fan, enthusiast and promoter. I have > brought a lot of people to GNU/Linux arguing is safer, free and respect our > freedom. > > Well, thanks to the market wishes of Red Hat, that pushed their systemd > stuff into us, we are now limited not only in init systems inside the Debian > ecosystem, but in a lot of things that not-init-system-only daemon is > eating. > > People using it seem superficially happy, except system administrators and > freedom fighters. The choices are narrowing down. The whole security and > stability could be damaged with time (if this part is broken or corrupted, > how is our system to behave?). > I hear and read a lot of much more experienced users and IT people arguing > that this is going to become worst. > > Debian is a big boy in GNU/Linux, not a sheep! Will it just follow wherever > Red Hat decides to take things - on containers, virtualisation, etc.!!?? > > Ubuntu's Upstart was not well received by Debian. SysVinit it was said to be > archaic and "one man", not worth reinforcing. I humbly think this was not > good and, yet, there are other options (OpenRC by Gentoo...!? whatever). > > Please, Debian, keep being THE GNU/Linux free and libre distribution. It is > not about making a war on RH. Let them be what they want. It is about > joining forces with other distros that are not selfish as RH is being. > Debian + Ubuntu +Mint = 80% of the GNU/Linux users on this planet! > > Thank you. > > Gonzalo > > > -- > Dr. Gonzalo Velasco Canziani > Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG) > Brasil > > “The world is a dangerous place to live; > not because of the people who are evil, > but because of the people who don't do anything about it.” > Albert Einstein > -- Regards, Dimitri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CANBHLUjTC6RcsWrVoC3HeO1s20yzK_oLZRk840GMCEHMG=2...@mail.gmail.com
