> Interesting... So this is a social issue: You need to trust someone. Exactly. I read one great blog post once that explained that the value of Debian is not the great tools like dpkg and apt, but its social contract. Good tools are a side effect of the social contract.
> But if you trust Debian, which does great in spreading the idea of free > software, why won't you trust developer X, who is e.g. also a DD and > free-software enthusiast? That person wouldn’t be a DD without Debian, so this is one more example of the usefulness of distributions / OS projects :) Circularity aside, it’s easier to trust one process that involves many eyeballs than trusting a number of individuals. > Also, is it freedom to be limited to the stuff your platform (Debian) > provides? You’re going onto the slippery slope that uses more that one sense of “freedom” to derail the discussion, or misleads the debate by speaking about “freedom of choice”. See http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-devel-list/2008-January/msg00861.html In my messages, I was speaking only about free software, software that provides the well-known four freedoms. See the FSF definition or the DFSG. Regards _______________________________________________ Distributions mailing list Distributions@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/distributions