Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-06-01 Thread Nic James Ferrier
Ok. You and a few others here helped me decide. Thanks very much. -- Nic Ferrier http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-05-31 Thread Nic James Ferrier
cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > People often seem to resent what looks like a personal political idea > getting in the way of the system. In this case it is suggested that > Debian is being petty and fighting over trivial political stuff. I am NOT trying to debate the decision to regard G

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-05-31 Thread Nic James Ferrier
Max Hyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Watch out for loaded words. The decision was indeed > ``political'' in that it was put up to a vote, but > `politics' has negative connotations that I don't think > apply here. Each person voting, whether pro or con, was > voting out of principle, not beca

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-05-31 Thread Nic James Ferrier
"Karl E. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "An alternative"? Re-writing the Emacs manual (IIRC this was the > sticking point early on in this thread) is not an easy task. At the > very least I would expect this to take some time. In the mean time, the > maintainer(s) still had to follow

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-05-31 Thread Nic James Ferrier
"Michael Marsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 5/30/07, Max Hyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You're not allowed to change or discard that lump. Isn't it at least >> *understandable* that many believe this document is unfree? > > Given one particular invariant section that always appears in FS

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-05-31 Thread Nic James Ferrier
Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 01:56:03AM +, Tyler Smith wrote: >> On 2007-05-31, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > About a year ago, there was a GR (general resolution) that Debian had >> > and it said 'GFDL without invariant sections' are DFSG-

I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-05-30 Thread Nic James Ferrier
My name is Nic Ferrier. I am really ANGRY at Debian. After 10 years of being a dedicated Debian user I have reached the point at which I am so angry with what is being done that I want to stop using it. I will start to look for viable alternatives to Debian. A few weeks ago, as Emacs was nearing