Re: Bye Bruce

1998-03-22 Thread Britton
On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Richard Sevenich wrote: Well, OK - I'll stick with Debian despite Bruce's departure - for a while longer. The developers would miss folks like me who ask those naive questions. You can't be elite if no one notices. Bruce provided a type of leadership (yes, I know Ian

Bye Bruce

1998-03-20 Thread Richard Sevenich
Well, OK - I'll stick with Debian despite Bruce's departure - for a while longer. The developers would miss folks like me who ask those naive questions. You can't be elite if no one notices. Bruce provided a type of leadership (yes, I know Ian took over some time ago) that was reassuring to the

Re: Bye Bruce

1998-03-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Richard == Richard Sevenich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard Well, OK - I'll stick with Debian despite Bruce's departure - Richard for a while longer. The developers would miss folks like me Richard who ask those naive questions. You can't be elite if no one Richard notices. Hmm.

Re: Bye Bruce

1998-03-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, George == George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: George So far I would say that under the circumstances, the George developers did a nice job. There are some rough edges but George there was also considerable pressure to get nearly everything George rebuilt for glibc. Nice job, folks! I am

Re: Bye Bruce

1998-03-20 Thread Alex Romosan
manoj wrote: Hmm. Elitism is not really a strong motivating force for me. Sharing with what I percive to be my community is. People asking questions is good: for people who ask questions shall one day be contributors to the community. Developers did not spring to this earth tapping code

Re: Bye Bruce

1998-03-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Alex == Alex Romosan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alex but this is not really what you said a few days ago. to quote: Yes, I did say that, didn't I? Manoj The thing that drives us is that we feel a sense of community Manoj with people like us, who are like minded enough and have made

Re: Bye Bruce

1998-03-20 Thread Alex Yukhimets
Alex and then there is that ugly word: outsiders. And yes, there are always outsiders. When you have a community, unless it encompasses all humanity, there are always outsiders. People who do not get freedom of software. People who And those who get this freedom differently (like