Re: Re: Quote: Debian and Democracy at Advocato.org

2006-07-31 Thread anton nikolaev
nice work!


Re: Quote: Debian and Democracy at Advocato.org

2003-10-16 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 04:25:17PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote:

 QUOTE
 Debian and Democracy
 Posted 7 Oct 2003 by exa (Master)
   

Ha.  Hahahaa.  Ha, ha, ha...

-- 
 - mdz




Re: Quote: Debian and Democracy at Advocato.org

2003-10-16 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 06:27:59PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
 On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 04:25:17PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote:
 
  QUOTE
  Debian and Democracy
  Posted 7 Oct 2003 by exa (Master)

 
 Ha.  Hahahaa.  Ha, ha, ha...

You don't think he's a Master?  I'm quite sure he's a Master debater.  He's
also probably a good fisherman - a baiter, as it were.

- Matt




Re: Quote: Debian and Democracy at Advocato.org

2003-10-16 Thread Brian Nelson
Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 06:27:59PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
 On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 04:25:17PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote:
 
  QUOTE
  Debian and Democracy
  Posted 7 Oct 2003 by exa (Master)

 
 Ha.  Hahahaa.  Ha, ha, ha...

 You don't think he's a Master?  I'm quite sure he's a Master debater.  He's
 also probably a good fisherman - a baiter, as it were.

Like any of that's enough to fight the dark master bater.

I think you're drawing a lot of crazy conclusions about the unholy
prince bater.

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Re: Quote: Debian and Democracy at Advocato.org

2003-10-09 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Daniel Ruoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-10-08 16:25]:
 I personally sent and email to DAM asking if I should ask again for
 sponsor or if should I wait to become a developer and I got no
 answer.

Actually, you did get an answer, on day after sending your mail.
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
[EMAIL PROTECTED]




Re: Quote: Debian and Democracy at Advocato.org

2003-10-09 Thread Vince Mulhollon
Daniel Ruoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I think this should be clearly discussed.
 Original link at:
 http://www.advogato.org/article/716.html

 QUOTE
 Debian and Democracy
 Posted 7 Oct 2003 by exa (Master)

 me you need to get 5 sponsors blah blah I found 4, but they scared out
 every 5th one! I was at a later time told that it was a way of rejecting

I will admit I was one of the four sponsors, based on my theory that
the best way to make someone be nice, is to be nice to them, as what
goes around comes around.  Golden rule and all that.

In retrospect, perhaps that technique has not been entirely successful.

Anyway, I'd like to publically say no one ever tried to scare me out 
or any B.S. like that.  I find that claim Very Very Hard to believe.




Re: Quote: Debian and Democracy at Advocato.org

2003-10-09 Thread Steve Langasek
(in the interest of openness...)

On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:06:46AM -0500, Vince Mulhollon wrote:
 Daniel Ruoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

  I think this should be clearly discussed.
  Original link at:
  http://www.advogato.org/article/716.html

  QUOTE
  Debian and Democracy
  Posted 7 Oct 2003 by exa (Master)

  me you need to get 5 sponsors blah blah I found 4, but they scared out
  every 5th one! I was at a later time told that it was a way of rejecting

 I will admit I was one of the four sponsors, based on my theory that
 the best way to make someone be nice, is to be nice to them, as what
 goes around comes around.  Golden rule and all that.

 In retrospect, perhaps that technique has not been entirely successful.

 Anyway, I'd like to publically say no one ever tried to scare me out 
 or any B.S. like that.  I find that claim Very Very Hard to believe.

I believe this is a (deliberately?) clouded reference to an exchange I
had with Eray on IRC (buried in the log that was posted).  What actually
happened was that I told *Eray* I suspected the 5th sponsor he was
seeking was being derelict in his duty to the project, and that if I
felt the developer in question sponsored him for reasons that were
contrary to the spirit of the project, I intended to bring a GR against
that developer.

This was actually mentioned for Eray's sake as much as anything, because
I didn't think it was right for him to get his hopes up under those
circumstances.  In any case, the prospective sponsor eventually
reconsidered on his own with no threats from me (if anything,
threatening probably would have strengthened his resolve) and came to
the conclusion many others had about Eray's qualifications.

Whether there were other potential 5th sponsors that were dissuaded,
I couldn't say.

-- 
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postmodern programmer


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Re: Quote: Debian and Democracy at Advocato.org

2003-10-09 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:06:46AM -0500, Vince Mulhollon wrote:
 I will admit I was one of the four sponsors, based on my theory that
 the best way to make someone be nice, is to be nice to them, as what
 goes around comes around.  Golden rule and all that.
 
 In retrospect, perhaps that technique has not been entirely successful.

It's always good to temper one's optimism with a little realism.  Some
people just won't play nice.  Just like how in school the worst bullies
*knew* that you'd been told the old saw just ignore them and they'll go
away, and so deliberately kept up their idiocy far beyond any human
limits of patience.

It's called gaming the system.  Such people, if they have intelligence,
often grow up to become mutual fund managers.

 Anyway, I'd like to publically say no one ever tried to scare me out 
 or any B.S. like that.  I find that claim Very Very Hard to believe.

Damn, the horse's head in the bed didn't work?  :)

-- 
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Re: Quote: Debian and Democracy at Advocato.org

2003-10-09 Thread Joachim Breitner
Am Do, den 09.10.2003 schrieb Branden Robinson um 05:17:
 http://people.debian.org/~rene/exa-log-24-07-2003

Just wanted to thank rene for recording that, it was a interesting
reading for the evening, and certainly better than German TV. I
especially like these parts:

15:39  * Madkiss grins
15:39  * _rene_ joins Madkiss
15:39  * robster too
15:41  * Wile_E gets popcorn
15:53  * stockholm needs to do his laundry.

:-)

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Re: Quote: Debian and Democracy at Advocato.org

2003-10-09 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 09:37:39AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
 Whether there were other potential 5th sponsors that were dissuaded,
 I couldn't say.

I considered it, as the first indications I recieved (from going through
mailing list archives) was that he was no more abrasive than others on the
lists, and he appeared to do reasonable work.  However, he hung himself by
running around everywhere he could find screaming about how unjust it was,
and also by ignoring the good-faith offer made on [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Basically, Eray (not like you're listening) you did yourself in on this one,
no mythical cabal quashed your application.

- Matt




Quote: Debian and Democracy at Advocato.org

2003-10-08 Thread Daniel Ruoso
I think this should be clearly discussed.
Original link at:
http://www.advogato.org/article/716.html

QUOTE
Debian and Democracy
Posted 7 Oct 2003 by exa (Master)

Two unrelated words. From experience. 

Now, what is the problem with debian? It's because debian claims to be
democratic, but it isn't. It claims to be open, but it isn't open. It
has a secret mailing list. And some guys who are in charge never
change, like James Troup who is basically a village idiot. Now, in an
open organization there are no dictators, but in debian there is. James
Troup gets to decide who can get an account all by himself. Project
leader changes, but he doesn't change. He is the administrator of
everything. He is Mr. Debian.

I'll make a summary for you guys who wonder what debian really is.

1. I volunteered to make some packages for debian. 2. I applied for an
account 3. I got into a few flamewars in debian-devel 4. I had so many
packages that it became too time consuming to deal with them without an
account. 5. I waited for the account, it wasn't opened. (Because I must
have pissed off Mr. Debian or one of his buddies) 6. I waited for many
months, and wrote several times that I needed to account to do some
meaningful work 7. Meanwhile James Troup, the idiot elmo of debian, told
me you need to get 5 sponsors blah blah I found 4, but they scared out
every 5th one! I was at a later time told that it was a way of rejecting
my application by one of the other idiots. 8. It was 2 years of wait. 9.
Then, some of them tell me well if you maintain your packages we'll
consider the account. But I didn't back off from my position. I said I
needed an account first. 9. Today these idiots write to me, we reject
your application because you didn't maintain your packages and got into
some flamewars.

Well, for those who don't know debian lists have always been full of
flamewars and I did apologize to people whom I had arguments with except
a moron called Branden Robinson. I also heavily criticized James Troup
because I thought he wasn't performing his duties. Anyway, it's obvious
that he had a problem with me, and now I have a problem with him because
his action confirms what I had suspected of him.

So, why am I writing this? To cause these fools to write rebuttals full
of poor rhetoric which are so typical of them? No. It's because I think
the really enthusiastic members of debian project should find ways to
make their project more open and more democratic. I don't want to
contribute to the project any longer, if I had wanted I would have
maintained my packages for the last 1.5 years despite that moron called
elmo. I was frustrated by the issues I've summarized, so I decided to
wait and see when this idiot would reject my application. Then, I could
voice my opinion.

Well, here it goes.
/QUOTE


P.S.: I'm in NM process for more than 1,5 years. I've requested for
sponsor for packages, but got no answer. The last action was a phone
call that (because of my not-so-good english) was a little pointless,
and then I've got no answer again. I personally sent and email to DAM
asking if I should ask again for sponsor or if should I wait to become a
developer and I got no answer.




Re: Quote: Debian and Democracy at Advocato.org

2003-10-08 Thread Thomas Hood
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 21:25, Daniel Ruoso wrote:
 I think this should be clearly discussed.

Just to prevent any confusion I'll just point out that
the rant you quoted was authored by Eray Ozkural.

-- 
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Re: Quote: Debian and Democracy at Advocato.org

2003-10-08 Thread Cameron Patrick
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 09:42:42PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote:
| On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 21:25, Daniel Ruoso wrote:
|  I think this should be clearly discussed.
| 
| Just to prevent any confusion I'll just point out that
| the rant you quoted was authored by Eray Ozkural.

Hmm.  I've heard that name mentioned before on this mailing list, in
conjunction with phrases like dick-head and will never be allowed
into Debian.  Presumably there's a good reason for this animosity
towards him; would someone mind enlightening me as to why?

Cameron.




Re: Quote: Debian and Democracy at Advocato.org

2003-10-08 Thread Peter Makholm
Daniel Ruoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I think this should be clearly discussed.

He calls named people village idiots and morons and acuses peoples of
'poor rhetoric'. I don't think that kind of stuff deserves to be
discussed anywhere.

And if you want to discusse anyway then please do it on
debian-projects og maybe rather debian-couriosa where it belongs. I
has nothing to do with developing Debian (the distribution). 


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Re: Quote: Debian and Democracy at Advocato.org

2003-10-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 09 Oct 2003, Cameron Patrick wrote:
 On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 09:42:42PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote:
 | On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 21:25, Daniel Ruoso wrote:
 |  I think this should be clearly discussed.
 | 
 | Just to prevent any confusion I'll just point out that
 | the rant you quoted was authored by Eray Ozkural.
 
 Hmm.  I've heard that name mentioned before on this mailing list, in
 conjunction with phrases like dick-head and will never be allowed
 into Debian.  Presumably there's a good reason for this animosity
 towards him; would someone mind enlightening me as to why?

You just need to ask http://lists.debian.org about it.

Basically, Eray was social trouble.  He proved to be able to disrupt the
mailing lists as nobody else had ever managed to.  It doesn't really matter
how, or why.  The end result was that his presence was considered
detrimental to the group by a large body of people, and quite vocally I
should add.

Obviously not everyone thought so.  But given the amount of people that were
quite angry with him, the DAM requested that 5 developers speak in his
behalf to aprove him.

He never did get 5 developers to speak on his behalf to the DAM, as far as I
know.

-- 
  One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie. -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
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Re: Quote: Debian and Democracy at Advocato.org

2003-10-08 Thread Norman Jordan
He wanted to take over some of my packages and sent an email to
debian-kde, but not to my Debian address. By the time I had learned of
what he was doing, he had already created his own packages. He didn't
know how to work with other people.

If he was a developer, then he probably would have hijacked my package
without even sending me a personal email.

Thanks.

On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 13:01, Cameron Patrick wrote:
 On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 09:42:42PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote:
 | On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 21:25, Daniel Ruoso wrote:
 |  I think this should be clearly discussed.
 | 
 | Just to prevent any confusion I'll just point out that
 | the rant you quoted was authored by Eray Ozkural.
 
 Hmm.  I've heard that name mentioned before on this mailing list, in
 conjunction with phrases like dick-head and will never be allowed
 into Debian.  Presumably there's a good reason for this animosity
 towards him; would someone mind enlightening me as to why?
 
 Cameron.
 




Re: Quote: Debian and Democracy at Advocato.org

2003-10-08 Thread Andreas Metzler
Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 21:25, Daniel Ruoso wrote:
 I think this should be clearly discussed.

 Just to prevent any confusion I'll just point out that
 the rant you quoted was authored by Eray Ozkural.

And to immediately stop the any discussion:
---
To: debian-qa@lists.debian.org
Cc: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Need help: difficult NM / requestor
From: Roland Mas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 18:25:55 +0200
[...]
  Anyway, the offer as it stands is this (fairly standard) sponsorhip
offer: Eray makes fixed packages, makes them available on a public
URL, posts this URL to debian-mentors (possibly Cc:ing me and/or Mark
Brown), and we sponsor these packages if they're good.  If they're
good, and the bugs are fixed, we'll advertise that.  If the packages
are very good, we'll say that publically too, and maybe advocate him
to the DAM.  If they're not good, we'll also advertise that, and Eray
will be in an even more awkward position to bitch and demand than he
is now.

From: Eray Ozkural [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Roland Mas [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-qa@lists.debian.org
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 19:53:26 +0300
[..]
Thanks Roland for presenting the situation objectively. He has taken time to
elaborate on what led to the current undesirable situation and our IRC
discussion today. It is as he has said. I didn't see any significant
misrepresentation. [*]

I am very busy writing a paper and doing a book review. When I have some
volunteer time available, I will try to attend the bug reports and I'll
inform potential uploads to Roland and d-mentors list.

To: debian-qa@lists.debian.org
Cc: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Roland Mas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 11:52:06 +0200
[...]
For anyone interested: one month has passed.  I've been away for
holidays, but I found no email from Eray in my inbox when coming back.

To: debian-qa@lists.debian.org
Cc: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Roland Mas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 15:08:12 +0200
[...]
  Two months[1].  Still no email.  Haven't seen him on IRC either.
---

If you intend to followup, please don't. Just read the complete
messages on lists.debian.org (I only cut down Roland's initial one
signigicantly.)
cu andreas
PS: FWIW I think the nm-process is _really_ getting better, we just
had 4 consecutive weeks with new maintainers getting DAM approval and
JT formalizing how rejections work in the fifth week, making the
process more transparent.
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Re: Quote: Debian and Democracy at Advocato.org

2003-10-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 04:01:47 +0800, Cameron Patrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: 

 On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 09:42:42PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote:
 On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 21:25, Daniel Ruoso wrote:
  I think this should be clearly discussed.

 Just to prevent any confusion I'll just point out that the rant you
 quoted was authored by Eray Ozkural.

 Hmm.  I've heard that name mentioned before on this mailing list, in
 conjunction with phrases like dick-head and will never be allowed
 into Debian.  Presumably there's a good reason for this animosity
 towards him; would someone mind enlightening me as to why?

I would have thought that the article mentioned would have
 gone a long way towards explaining the distaste.

manoj
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Re: Quote: Debian and Democracy at Advocato.org

2003-10-08 Thread Adam McKenna
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 10:13:53PM +0200, Peter Makholm wrote:
 And if you want to discusse anyway then please do it on
 debian-projects og maybe rather debian-couriosa where it belongs. I
 has nothing to do with developing Debian (the distribution). 

Why even waste debian bandwidth on it?  Advogato has discussion boards.

--Adam

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Re: Quote: Debian and Democracy at Advocato.org

2003-10-08 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 04:01:47 +0800
Cameron Patrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 09:42:42PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote:
 | On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 21:25, Daniel Ruoso wrote:
 |  I think this should be clearly discussed.
 | 
 | Just to prevent any confusion I'll just point out that
 | the rant you quoted was authored by Eray Ozkural.
 
 Hmm.  I've heard that name mentioned before on this mailing list, in
 conjunction with phrases like dick-head and will never be allowed
 into Debian.  Presumably there's a good reason for this animosity
 towards him; would someone mind enlightening me as to why?

http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-mentors@lists.debian.org/msg09658.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-mentors@lists.debian.org/msg09753.html

but google: debian DAM Eray Ozkural may help.

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Re: Quote: Debian and Democracy at Advocato.org

2003-10-08 Thread Roland Mas
Thomas Hood, 2003-10-08 22:00:17 +0200 :

 On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 21:25, Daniel Ruoso wrote:
 I think this should be clearly discussed.

 Just to prevent any confusion I'll just point out that
 the rant you quoted was authored by Eray Ozkural.

I'll add that since I posted [1], [2] and [3], I got exactly one email
from Eray, [4] (the very day I posted [1]).  I am not aware that
anybody else in Debian has heard any news about fixed packages coming
from him.  I'll probably continue my monthly reports for a few months,
unless people yell at me for wasting a few kilobytes of their
bandwidth a month.

I don't feel like creating an account and getting familiar with
advogato just to post a reply (there's still nothing personal between
Eray and myself), but if anyone with some status there wants to
cut-and-paste my prose, feel free to.  I'd appreciate if you sent me
the link if you do :-)

[1] 
http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2003/debian-mentors-200307/msg00252.html
[2] 
http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2003/debian-mentors-200308/msg00263.html
[3] 
http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2003/debian-mentors-200309/msg00317.html
[4] 
http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2003/debian-mentors-200307/msg00264.html

Roland.
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Re: Quote: Debian and Democracy at Advocato.org

2003-10-08 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Well... After a little bit more research I found a good email about this
in debian mentors. 
http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2003/debian-mentors-200307/msg00252.html

Maybe this thread is not needed anymore. Sorry.

[]'s

daniel

Em Qua, 2003-10-08 às 16:25, Daniel Ruoso escreveu:
 I think this should be clearly discussed.
 Original link at:
 http://www.advogato.org/article/716.html
 
 QUOTE
 Debian and Democracy
 Posted 7 Oct 2003 by exa (Master)
 
 Two unrelated words. From experience. 
 
 Now, what is the problem with debian? It's because debian claims to be
 democratic, but it isn't. It claims to be open, but it isn't open. It
 has a secret mailing list. And some guys who are in charge never
 change, like James Troup who is basically a village idiot. Now, in an
 open organization there are no dictators, but in debian there is. James
 Troup gets to decide who can get an account all by himself. Project
 leader changes, but he doesn't change. He is the administrator of
 everything. He is Mr. Debian.
 
 I'll make a summary for you guys who wonder what debian really is.
 
 1. I volunteered to make some packages for debian. 2. I applied for an
 account 3. I got into a few flamewars in debian-devel 4. I had so many
 packages that it became too time consuming to deal with them without an
 account. 5. I waited for the account, it wasn't opened. (Because I must
 have pissed off Mr. Debian or one of his buddies) 6. I waited for many
 months, and wrote several times that I needed to account to do some
 meaningful work 7. Meanwhile James Troup, the idiot elmo of debian, told
 me you need to get 5 sponsors blah blah I found 4, but they scared out
 every 5th one! I was at a later time told that it was a way of rejecting
 my application by one of the other idiots. 8. It was 2 years of wait. 9.
 Then, some of them tell me well if you maintain your packages we'll
 consider the account. But I didn't back off from my position. I said I
 needed an account first. 9. Today these idiots write to me, we reject
 your application because you didn't maintain your packages and got into
 some flamewars.
 
 Well, for those who don't know debian lists have always been full of
 flamewars and I did apologize to people whom I had arguments with except
 a moron called Branden Robinson. I also heavily criticized James Troup
 because I thought he wasn't performing his duties. Anyway, it's obvious
 that he had a problem with me, and now I have a problem with him because
 his action confirms what I had suspected of him.
 
 So, why am I writing this? To cause these fools to write rebuttals full
 of poor rhetoric which are so typical of them? No. It's because I think
 the really enthusiastic members of debian project should find ways to
 make their project more open and more democratic. I don't want to
 contribute to the project any longer, if I had wanted I would have
 maintained my packages for the last 1.5 years despite that moron called
 elmo. I was frustrated by the issues I've summarized, so I decided to
 wait and see when this idiot would reject my application. Then, I could
 voice my opinion.
 
 Well, here it goes.
 /QUOTE
 
 
 P.S.: I'm in NM process for more than 1,5 years. I've requested for
 sponsor for packages, but got no answer. The last action was a phone
 call that (because of my not-so-good english) was a little pointless,
 and then I've got no answer again. I personally sent and email to DAM
 asking if I should ask again for sponsor or if should I wait to become a
 developer and I got no answer.




Re: Quote: Debian and Democracy at Advocato.org

2003-10-08 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 04:01:47AM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
 On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 09:42:42PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote:
 | Just to prevent any confusion I'll just point out that
 | the rant you quoted was authored by Eray Ozkural.
 
 Hmm.  I've heard that name mentioned before on this mailing list, in
 conjunction with phrases like dick-head and will never be allowed
 into Debian.  Presumably there's a good reason for this animosity
 towards him; would someone mind enlightening me as to why?

http://people.debian.org/~rene/exa-log-24-07-2003

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Re: Quote: Debian and Democracy at Advocato.org

2003-10-08 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 09:42:42PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote:
 On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 21:25, Daniel Ruoso wrote:
  I think this should be clearly discussed.
 
 Just to prevent any confusion I'll just point out that
 the rant you quoted was authored by Eray Ozkural.

Thanks, you saved me from reading this entire thread.

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