On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 05:19:41PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:52:01AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > > Please avoid the "third party" euphemism. If you want to run non-free > > software > > on a Glibc-based system, you can use the NetBSD libc since it's no technical > > problem to provide it as alternative (ala Linux libc5) > > "Third party" includes the large body of Free software that isn't > shipped by Debian, plus unmodified upstream code not supplied by Debian. > There's no need whatsoever to start assuming that it's a euphemism.
If read Perry's response, and me subsequent response, you'll find that Perry meant something completely different. You'll also find how I recognised my own confusion. > Look, Robert, what is it about you and your complete inability to > actually work with others whose goals aren't identically aligned to > yours? Please send me your personal rants privately, or keep pestering me when I'm not present (like in #debian-devel). That way I don't have to pay any attention to you. -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work." -- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion)
