Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-09-22 Thread Steve Dobson
Mathieu On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 11:38:18AM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: > Steve Dobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté : > > The Social Contract is about producing the "Debian system" and other > > works that provide a useful platform for our users. The Operating >

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-09-22 Thread Steve Dobson
Mathieu On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 08:30:41AM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: > MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté : > > And do you really think that every software (of your wide definition) > you can have on computer is part of the Operating System? The goal of > Debian is to provide an Operating System

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-09-21 Thread Steve Dobson
RMS On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 06:33:41PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > Manuals, essays, licenses, and logos *encoded as bits on a > computer* are software. > > Defining all these thing as software is a peculiar way to use the > word. I don't think that is the best way to interpret th

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-21 Thread Steve Dobson
RMS On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 09:30:25AM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > It contains detailed > mathematicly research on how the improvements were made, details which > are not evident in the source and therefore reverse engineering of the > documentation from just the source is n

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-15 Thread Steve Dobson
RMS On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 07:08:25PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > To the readers of this message: if you are a Debian developer and you > do, or perhaps might, support including manuals covered by the GFDL > (without expecting it to change) in Debian, please write to me and > tell me. (I am

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-09-14 Thread Steve Dobson
Thomas On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 02:01:40PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The goal of this part of the GFDL is to force their (non-free) dogma > > to be distributed along with their manuals (for various reasons of > > their own, which are no con

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-13 Thread Steve Dobson
RMS On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 05:05:52PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > I don't really believe it. In the 1980s, formalized free software was a > new concept for almost everybody. Today, there are too many free > software projects for the word _not_ to get out. > > My experience is

Re: US citizens uploading to non-us

2000-11-23 Thread Steve Dobson
Hi Wichert On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 04:20:27PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Sam Hartman wrote: > > I can't find an answer to the question on this list's archives and so > > I'm asking it again. It seems fairly clear to me that the answer is > > yes, if proper procedures are followed