On Lu, 20 oct 14, 13:52:37, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > Not to me. All these discussions could very well happen on the > > -offtopic list. > > Sure it can. Every single status-quo supporter in history has told > protestors the same thing: If you want to ride on the front of the bus, > petition the county, but don't do boycotts and civil disobediance. You're free to boycott Debian or systemd or whatever. Civil disobedience doesn't really apply here, since you're not a "citizen" of Debian, i.e. you can leave at any time, you don't pay taxes, etc., you're only using what Debian provides for free (in both meanings of the word).
If you mean you are actually DOSing Debian's support channels just to make you're point that's likely to get you banned instead, besides not achieving anything. > Yes, if we all wanted to have a polite discussion amongst ourselves, > reaching nobody but those wanting to discuss cars, Obama, Ebola, and the > Mideast, we certainly could go on the offtopic list. But we want to: > > A) Reach real people involved in the situation A simple announcement like "hey, we want to discuss 'this' and 'that' over 'there', if you're interested join us" would have been as effective. > B) Build a community By destroying another one? > Frankly, telling us we can do it on the offtopic list is an insult to > our intelligence. You know it, and we know it. No, actually I don't. Call me stupid if you want, but I fail to see how having such discussions elsewhere is insulting. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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