If one has a heart to run free servive, people will aprreciate it If one run a free service with a cheating, it is not moral
Let's have a look at one example Imagine a street seller sold food to the people who passed by. One of them ate it and got an alergy. He/she died in the hospital. The street seller may not get caught. However, do you think the government will ignore the case and let it happen twice? --- Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > formless void <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There is no excuse for volunatary org not to run > > professionally. > > > > Imagine Red Cross, if they are not running in > > professional way, what would the world be? > > While it's flattering to compare the Debian project > and the Open Source > Community with the Red Cross (we are, in a way, > trying to save people > from bad software), there is a difference. Our users > have a choice. We > are not missionaries in regions without other > options. There are many > possibilities to choose from. > > > If you program for yourself, it is your own > business. > > If you program for others, you have got to take > the > > responsibility to make it right > > And in fact Debian is taking it *very* serious. You > should read the > Social Contract. But all the software you get from > Debian is licensed, > and one of the clauses of those licenses is that it > is your > responsibility what you do with the software. > Especially in a case > where you are going against recommendations. Xandros > does not support > the use of other packages and neither does Debian. > > Install Sarge and *if* you hit problems, we are here > to help you > however we can. There are thousands of subscribers > to this list > from around the globe. Only IRC might get you faster > answers than here. > For this free service (which is better than that > offered by many paid > employees of support desks) we would like your > questions to be "smart". > Here's the link again: > > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > > Please read it > Andrei > -- > If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand > it well enough. > (Albert Einstein) > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
