Re: [OT] "government"

1998-12-10 Thread Adam Di Carlo
As some who has complained about overproceduralizing before, I'm a little shocked by what seems to be ad hominom attacks and a lack of understanding about the way we do things. Let me start by saying that since the Ian Murdock days (or later), it has been Debian Policy which has made us more than

Re: [OT] "government"

1998-12-06 Thread Raul Miller
Scott McDermott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not true. What's being set up is a system that fulfills its own > prophecy. People will cite rules and regulations now instead of > resolving things socially. But I can't suggest a better way to do it > either so... There's a real problem here that need

Re: [OT] "government"

1998-12-06 Thread Scott McDermott
Darren Benham on Sat, Dec 05, 1998 at 08:33:13PM -0800: > > I just have an observation to make: you guys are getting > > increasingly *bureaucratized*. Like, massively so. I like all the > > [...] > > It's like auto insurance... most of the time you don't need it.. maybe > never need it. But wh

RE: [OT] "government"

1998-12-06 Thread Darren Benham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 06-Dec-98 Scott McDermott wrote: > I'm not a Debian developer, just a long time lurker. > > I just have an observation to make: you guys are getting increasingly > *bureaucratized*. Like, massively so. I like all the principles and > everything but I think

[OT] "government"

1998-12-06 Thread Scott McDermott
I'm not a Debian developer, just a long time lurker. I just have an observation to make: you guys are getting increasingly *bureaucratized*. Like, massively so. I like all the principles and everything but I think all this definition and concretism is just bloated procedure. Are all these adden