Let me start by saying I support Raul's enthusiasm about this topic, just not his proposals. I will not continue in a line-by-line shootout over tangentials or get drawn away from examining the proposal at hand. My overall disagreement with Raul's proposal is that most of the changes he puts forth either increase the verbosity of the SC with no measurable benefit or contain gratuitous grammatical errors. I am neither an English professor nor an editor, but I value succinctness in documents such as the Social Contract (SC).
The purpose of these ammendments is to increase the SC's resistance to misinterpretation. I honestly disagree with the intended intrepretation of Raul's proposals, thereby enforcing my opinion that they fall short of their goal. This is not a slight to you, Raul, just the proposals. I agree with Raul's assertion that Debian is a project and not "just" a distribution. I realize this contradicts my earlier statement that Debian, by definition is a distribution. However, it is a community built around a distribution of software, a "collection of *.debs". I don't believe it contradicts the idea that Debian's central goal is to produce a quality, free, as in libre, distribution of software. So, let's focus on making the SC less resistant to misinterpretation. RM> We will continue to support free software, and non-free software, just RM> as we always have. CW> We know this is your agenda, although you claimed earlier in this post CW> that your proposal would exclude it. RM> I'm not sure what you're talking about here -- can you provide a RM> reference? Honestly, over the hundreds of posts you've made on the subject, the message is quite clear whether directly or indirectly stated. I don't plan researching the multiple threads to give explicit references to what I interpret is your platform on the free v.s. non-free controversy. Frankly, I don't care. A properly worded General Resolution will decide what Debian supports in the future, not our bantering and mud-slinging. -- Chad Walstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.wookimus.net/ assert(expired(knowledge)); /* core dump */
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