Re: debian unmanageable?

2002-12-09 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
and may do anything can do much more damage than a thousand of newbies who are too afraid to touch anything important. -- Dmitry Borodaenko

Re: debian unmanageable?

2002-12-09 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
country (Belarus), not to mention some others, I wouldn't entrust him with power over my bathroom, but behold, he is already trusted by millions of people... -- Dmitry Borodaenko

Re: Debian as a social group and how to develop it better

2002-12-02 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
in this thread, there should be a reason for younger, more enthusiastic developers not taking their place. Is there not enough attention paid to coaching new group members, or social climate inside the group is inattractive, or what? -- Dmitry Borodaenko

Re: Word Processing

2002-11-15 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
switching from Windows I'd also recommend IceWM: it is about as fast as fvwm and looks more familiar and less confusing for a Windows user (has taskbar, for example). -- Dmitry Borodaenko

Re: Microsoft's plans to kill open source: TCPA

2002-11-04 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
have free dynamic vector graphics format that could be used as a replacement for Flash. We may need no Flash, but we can't replace it with SVG :( -- Dmitry Borodaenko

Re: is Debian an anarchist organization/project?

2002-11-01 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
your point. What I wanted to achieve with my question is to shift focus to the discussion of freedom in general, which _is_ relevant to free software, and then draw the line from there back to anarchism. -- Dmitry Borodaenko

Re: is Debian an anarchist organization/project?

2002-11-01 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
that, too. -- W. Somerset Maugham You see, you can have food without freedom, but you must have freedom to ensure that you will still have food tomorrow. -- Dmitry Borodaenko

Re: is Debian an anarchist organization/project?

2002-10-31 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
the relation between anarchism and free _software_. Well, do you at least see relation between _free_ software and freedom? -- Dmitry Borodaenko

Re: is Debian an anarchist organization/project?

2002-10-30 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
developers. He hold no property, and wields no means of coercion. -- Dmitry Borodaenko

Re: is Debian an anarchist organization/project?

2002-10-30 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
something, but you can't deny others access to it (it works perfectly with information, wish it could be so easy in the real world). It protects cooperation from competition. It gives liberty to do anything you want with free software, and encourages to share with others. And so on. -- Dmitry Borodaenko

Re: is Debian an anarchist organization/project?

2002-10-30 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
such persecution impossible: as I've already said, it protects from, not builds upon, intellectual property and copyright. -- Dmitry Borodaenko

Re: LWN subscription for the Debian Project

2002-10-07 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
to join in, the way it was did with OASIS fees (the only problem is that I'm outside of US and don't want to risk my card info over the Net). -- Dmitry Borodaenko