Re: [nm-admin] Identification step in the current scheme (Re: Fear the new maintainer process)

2000-08-02 Thread Detlev Zundel
Hi, this whole discussion touches some deep points that I'd like to comment on. Basically I can make out two attitudes, or views of the project, resulting in arguments over more minor points. I'll call these groups the "open" and "closed" positions. I know this is a _large_ oversimplification

Re: [nm-admin] Identification step in the current scheme (Re: Fear the new maintainer process)

2000-08-02 Thread Detlev Zundel
Hi, this whole discussion touches some deep points that I'd like to comment on. Basically I can make out two attitudes, or views of the project, resulting in arguments over more minor points. I'll call these groups the "open" and "closed" positions. I know this is a _large_ oversimplification

Re: [nm-admin] Identification step in the current scheme (Re: Fear the new maintainer process)

2000-08-04 Thread Detlev Zundel
Hi, I am nearly sorry to lengthen this thread, but I stumbled about an assumption that I believe is fundamental and _not_ true: The keyboard of Gopal Narayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think some sort of traceability is good. As debian maintainers, we > can upload packages. If I am malici

Re: RMS Linux anyone?

1999-10-18 Thread Detlev Zundel
> > Damn they make it look like they are the first and only one committed > > to open source stuff... This just makes me angry. > > I don't see a word in that page that implies that "they are the first > and only one committed to open source stuff." IMHO, if they want to > support the FSF expli

Re: RMS Linux anyone?

1999-10-19 Thread Detlev Zundel
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Gerhard Poul wrote: > I don't think that there is something like an 'official' partner of the FSF. > AFAIK Debian evolved out of a GNU Project. > > btw: RMS != rms :-) Well - Debian is the preferred GNU/Linux distribution of the FSF - by rms' words. As can be seen from the