On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, J. Javier Maestro wrote: > On Aug Fri 22 2003 22:49, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > On 22 Aug 2003, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 18:30, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > > > > > > > So when I was writing on sometimes lousy organization > > > > of Debian software I tried to point the finger to the > > > > usability of the software, not to its quality: > > > > > > And you tried to do that by speculating that anybody contributing to > > > Debian probably is a loser without a life? > > > > No. I was not talking about those contributing to Debian but on Debian > > users: > > > > Quoting myself: > > "Situations like that is why I say that Debian-Linux does not work for > > people with a girl-friend or a family, or for folks who need to get a > > job done on a computer in a reasonable amount of time. Or for folks > > who simply like watching shadows on the wall (John Lennon :) or the > > stars above them. > > <Karma neutral> > Let's say the set of people with and without a girlfriend or a family > running Debian GNU/Linux is denoted by X. > > Now, we all agree that if someone contributes to Debian as a debian > developer, most surely he/she/it will be running Debian and/or any other > distro/OS. So, after this fair assumption, we can denote Y the set of > Debian developers and contributor. > > Thus, since it is clear from the above statements that Y is a subset of > X, that is, Y is contained in X, then, by addressing X as you did, > Wolfgang, in your previous emails, you are (I am sure not intentionally) > addressing Y. > > So, yes, you were indeed talking, amongst others, about the people > contributing to Debian. > </Karma neutral>
OK, if you're really keen on a maths approach: Y=Debian developpers (= *coders*) Z=Debian Users (= *non-coders*) X=Y+Z Y usually knows enough on Linux so she or he does not need to "give up" friends, family etc. to understand Debian-Linux. So if one tries to read my posts in the context of what I was writing I still think it could be clear that I was trying to write primarily about users, and no one else, when I wrote about family, girl-friends and people kissing their computer screens. I had hoped that people here could laugh about my picture of Debian folks falling in love with a machine. I admit I probably was very wrong with that hope, at least to some considerable extent. So very clearly: if my big mouth was hurting anybody out there, I'm definitely sorry about that. And if this helps: In the future you won't hear anything else than tech-talk from me on this list: No politics. No sarcasm. No pictures. Promise. Wolfgang -- Profile, Links: http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer
