Re: What the DFSG really says about trademarks

2005-08-30 Thread Sam Couter
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Judging by a quick Google, "how excitement" is an Australianism. > (Actually, I've never heard it before but it seems closely related to > the more common "how embarassment." The top few Google hits on that are > from New Zealand, followed by some Austral

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-19 Thread Sam Couter
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I se *no* (read that again: NO) reason why anyone > should run a mail spool on a dial-up. 1) The Internet is peer-to-peer. You want to break that? 2) Some of the ISPs I've used refuse to relay my messages when they claim to be from my dropbear address

Re: agenda for Debian leadership team (a.k.a. "Project Scud") meeting on 2005-04-24

2005-04-26 Thread Sam Couter
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don't kid yourself, he might not be a new kid on the block. For all we > know, he might be Eray in disguise... His obfuscated identity is obviously > being done on purpose. For which purpose, well, only he knows for sure. He has let an id

Re: agenda for Debian leadership team (a.k.a. "Project Scud") meeting on 2005-04-24

2005-04-26 Thread Sam Couter
Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the point is, a DPL as a single person, may have "confidential" meetings > with himself, and nobody bothers. But when it's a group of person ... > whoa ... that's now a big deal ! Bdale publically claimed at LCA that he has been asked for and provided

Re: New Maintainers

2005-03-04 Thread Sam Couter
> On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 08:58:34PM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > > > > Neil McGovern > > > >He maintains drivel. > > Andrew Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No pun intended, I'm sure, but it made me laugh :-) He'll fit in perfectly! -- Sam "Eddie" Couter | mailto:[EMA

Re: Dealing with drivers that need firmware on the filesystem

2005-01-15 Thread Sam Couter
Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, quite a lot actually - we can then ask people to feed a floopy or > CD containing the vendor-supplied firmware. Do keep up... A floopy? Maybe I'm failing to keep up (I've obviously taken a long time to get to reading this message), but why can't th

Re: documentation x executable code

2005-01-12 Thread Sam Couter
Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > right. even after 6 days you can't come up with any answer to over 70 lines > of argument in that message, so you retreat to the position of a coward and a > cretin - delete all but one flippant throw-away line and make a stupid > ad-hominem attack based

Re: documentation x executable code

2005-01-11 Thread Sam Couter
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 12:03:49PM +0100, David Weinehall wrote: > Indeed. But not everyone agrees with your opinion that invariant sections > are trivialities. Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > well, that just makes them wrong. and if they're obsessive about it, zealots. So your opin

Re: Theo de Raadt On Firmware Activism

2004-11-05 Thread Sam Couter
Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Why should firmware go to non-free, it's not evaluated on the CPU > >that runs Debian. > > Because the policy revisionists changed the DFSG to make it apply to > data as well. Man, talk about inflammatory. I know I shouldn't