Quoting Simon Josefsson (2026-03-01 14:08:57) > Gunnar Wolf <[email protected]> writes: > > > Simon Josefsson dijo [Sat, Feb 21, 2026 at 08:13:07PM +0100]: > >>> I guess it all boils down to Debian people not wanting you to badmouth the > >>> Debian project using Debian resources for it. > >> > >>Please help me improve motivation for Debian Libre so it doesn't come > >>off as badmouthing. That's not the intention, and to me, the choice of > >>basing Debian Libre on Debian speaks a lot about the good things in > >>Debian. It would be more work to base a libre OS on macOS or Windows. > >> > >>What Debian resources are you thinking about? > > > > If you are proposing a Debian Pure Blend called “Debian Libre”, it would be > > using ① Debian's trademark and ② Debian's infrastructure. It would badmouth > > the project by implying that full-Debian, that what our project does that > > is _not_ accepted by “Debian Libre” is, well... Not free. > > I don't follow this. A Debian Libre blend would be curated for a narrow > audience that care about a particular topic. It doesn't reject or > invalidate anything else in Debian.
If I make a Pure Blend for the narrow audience of danish-speaking people, and then call that blend "Debian for greatest people", I not only say something positive about danish people, but also implicitly something negative about spanish and australian people. Do you see the point now? - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ * Sponsorship: https://ko-fi.com/drjones [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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