On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 07:46:45PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: > Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I totally agree with you. I just have prefered that you do not > CC the bug when you contacted RMS.
I think Bas had a good idea, RMS will try to convince them to switch and we might all get a 1:1 free application. > I'm grateful to the FSF too and I'm a great supporter of Free > Software, don't get me wrong. But I'm trying to understand people > sometimes and things are not that simple: this is not like mldonkey > was closed-source. Furthermore, I'm following the OCaml world and > I can tell that mldonkey authors are great Free Software contributors. Good. > And if you want Debian to get in well with upstream authors (which > can be usefull when we encounter problems), you have to care about > not making them much trouble, otherwise don't even think of them > being helpfull! Well, i didn't represent debian when reporting the issue. hope they don't get upset. > Sorry, if you considered I've been offensive, of course not. > I only expressed > my opinions. Debian packaging is often a matter of relationship. you're always free to express your opinion, so am i to respond to them :) -- Robert Millan "5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5" Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992