>>"Andreas" == Andreas Voegele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Andreas> I'm no maintainer but I'm using Debian since version 1.1,
>> Every Debian developer represents Debian (e.g. at exhibitions)
Andreas> Do you think that all the long-term maintainers always represent
Andreas> Debian in a favourable way?
I am not sure that you understand what the project is. The
project is not a company, with a mandated party line; the project is
comprised of a multitudfe of people, all with varying agenda's and
view points (though there is a large overlap).
If Debian is a sum of its members, then it the view points of
Debian are also a sum of the views of its members; and one would be
doing our users a disservice by artificially suppressing reality.
Andreas> Here's an example from a recent thread in debian-devel called "Woody
Andreas> Progress":
Andreas> Andreas Schuldei> In fact we ultimatly exist to do them [the users]
Andreas> good and please them.
Andreas> Manoj Srivastava> Bullshit.
>> From the same thread:
Andreas> Manoj Srivastava> [...] I, personally, work for Debian so that I can
Andreas> have a high quality Linux distribution. Having it
Andreas> useful to other people, espescially people I like,
Andreas> is a neat secondary thing.
Andreas> Am I beholden to the unwashed masses out there?
Andreas> No way.
Andreas> I don't think that public statements like these help Debian.
Really? I think they do, since they elucidate the motivation
of at least one developer, and disabuse some of the users out there
about the demands that they can make; the customer is only always
right when they are paying customers.
Andreas> In fact, these statements don't comply with Debian's Social
Andreas> Contract which clearly says that "Our Priorities are Our
Andreas> Users and Free Software. We will be guided by the needs of
Andreas> our users and the free-software community. We will place
Andreas> their interests first in our priorities."
You are confusing the guiding principle of the project itself
with the motivations of individual developers.If you do not
understand the distinction, I don't think you understand well enough
how we work.
manoj
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