Re: civility in discussions

2008-11-17 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:17:04AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > > Folks, calling people discussion here trolls or "lying, > sniveling, unethical non-free lovers intent on destroying > Debian's good name" does nothing to promote a decent discussion, and > does not belong on thi

Re: Call for seconds: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-11-17 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 03:39:31PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 09:20:13AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > Careful; given the uncompromising zealotry of the people arguing for the > > removal of sourceless firmware at all costs, > > Please would you (all) stop referrin

Re: Dwindling popularity

2008-11-19 Thread Michael Pobega
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 06:36:20PM -0600, Ean Schuessler wrote: > - "Bas Zoetekouw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > To be honest, I don't consider this (i.e. Ubuntu being popular) to > > be a problem at all. > > Neither do I. To your point... if Ubuntu being popular isn't a problem > then ma