Re: Latest `disputes' draft (#3)

2002-10-30 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 10:57:35PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > I've had a handful of pretty positive comments by private mail (ha ha > the lurkers support me in email), which I'm finding encouraging. I am not sure what purpose is served by making unfalsifiable claims of support. Those who support

Re: Latest `disputes' draft (#3)

2002-10-30 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 10:57:35PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > I think you're mistaken. Take a look at my draft #3, section 4, 3rd > paragraph. Is this not the kind of thing you wanted ? I take it you did not see, or did not accept, my apology for overlooking it. If the latter, may I ask why?

Re: is Debian an anarchist organization/project?

2002-10-30 Thread Oohara Yuuma
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 17:12:56 +0200, Dmitry Borodaenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote to debian-devel@lists.debian.org: [long thread about anarchism] > On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 01:50:02PM +, Mark Brown wrote: > CW>> Interesting as this thread is, could it please be moved to a > CW>> non-technical li

Re: Latest `disputes' draft (#3)

2002-10-30 Thread Ian Jackson
Jochen Voss writes ("Re: Latest `disputes' draft (#3)"): > On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 11:16:31PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > If you can, refer the other Developer to some documentation saying > > when they should and should not do something, do so. > > Is this a correct english sentence now? I gues

Re: Latest `disputes' draft (#3)

2002-10-30 Thread Ian Jackson
Branden Robinson writes ("Re: Latest `disputes' draft (#3)"): > This draft appears to have addressed almost none of the issues I raised > in my feedback to you; not even ones that you explicitly said you'd fix. Well, perhaps I've addressed them differently to how you were expecting. I think that

Re: Definitions

2002-10-30 Thread Mark Janssen
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 20:42, Murray Kathleen (tel1kam) wrote: > Would you please be so kind as to tell me what is meant by the term > "distro"? A distribution, a collection of software see http://www.debian.org for a description > Also, what is "Kmail"? It's a mail program, just like eudora and

Definitions

2002-10-30 Thread Murray Kathleen (tel1kam)
Title: Message Would you please be so kind as to tell me what is meant by the term "distro"? Also, what is "Kmail"?   Thanks, Kathleen Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED]  

Re: is Debian an anarchist organization/project?

2002-10-30 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 04:37:44PM +0100, Thomas Quinot wrote: TQ> This is a very common misconception. Free Software is in fact all TQ> about asserting and maintaining property rights. The reason why the TQ> GPL can exist is because society has established the rules of TQ> property and copyrig

Re: is Debian an anarchist organization/project?

2002-10-30 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 08:41:14AM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: RC> We are not anarchistic in that sense because we are too sane. ;) RC> We have some anarchistic tendencies though. I think that is what we should discuss: instead of holy wars about pros and cons of anarchism per se, why not take

Re: is Debian an anarchist organization/project?

2002-10-30 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
[ As some people have pointed out, this discussion is non-technical, hence it belongs to debian-project rather than debian-devel where it was started. ] On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 10:10:02PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote: GM> Hmmm, good point in theory, i think it happened once to strip power GM> from