On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 02:04:51PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> >> > So be it. The Social Contract and the traditions of our project
> >> > compel us to make principled decisions, not politically expedient
> >> > ones.
> >>
> >> Not correct. Look at the handling of security issues. The project
> >> has chosen (never formally, though) that it will sacrifice one of its
> >> core values to increase short-term user convenience.
> >
> > What you describe as "user convenience" translates into
> >
> > 4. Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software
> >
> > We will be guided by the needs of our users and the free-software
> > community. We will place their interests first in our priorities.
> >
> > Hence, you're on crack if you think that such sophistry works.
>
> But how far goes clause 4? Obviously not that far that Debian
> includes Java (for rather complete values of "Java", which seems to
> imply a certain proprietary implementation at the moment).
So, I assume that with that you mean that we have "sacrificed one of our
core values" as well? My. All this sacrifice is making me hungry. :P
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