On Sunday 23 April 2006 12:23, Steve Lamb wrote: > Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > > Who are these most people, and why should it matter to the > > developers what "most people" want when they're not paying > > customers? > > Go through the archives of this list and read how many times > people cite Apt as the reason they use and stick with Debian. The > social contract gets hardly the same number of mentions. Why should > the developers care? One presumes they have some interest in what > the people whom are using their distribution are interested in. > Otherwise they would be one very self-involved and isolated bunch.
Count me as one for apt. I like the social contract, but I have to run a business. While I try to avoid non-FOSS, I'm not going to let my business fail or spend months or years working around it. I've spent 5 years writing special software and at some point I have to make sure I make a living on it. Isn't there an archive for non GPL'ed software, as well? I think it is great Debian is free, but as someone running a business who needs his software to do certain things, I think such an archive is an important side-project. (I probably even have it in my apt sources, but forgot about it -- don't have time to check now, gotta run for an appointment.) Hal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
