* Nathanael Nerode ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040325 00:55]:
> > Well, IMHO the old version is much nicer. The social contract _should_
> > in my opinion have some nice, not too technical start. A promise is a
> > very good start, and I'd like to keep that there.
> You have a point. Andrew's version is
Hi,
I herby propose the following editorial changes to the SC, as
alternative to Andrews proposal:
| 1. Debian Will Remain 100% Free Software
|
| We promise to keep the Debian system and all its components entirely
| free software. We provide the guidelines that we use to determine if
| a work i
Hi, Jonathan Walther wrote:
> I prefer my fellow Debian brothers to develop rhinocerous hides. :-)
Disregarding your smiley for a moment (I'm not sure what you want say with
it anyway): I disagree.
Rhino hides tend to come with Rhino horns, which people then get in the
habit of using as an all-p
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 08:15:09AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote:
> I herby propose the following editorial changes to the SC, as
> alternative to Andrews proposal:
Since ballot alternatives start out life as amendments to the current
proposal, I think it would be helpful if you could provide this as
> "Anand" == Anand Kumria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Anand> I, personally, suspect that the unfriendliness of Debian is
Anand> behind a lot of requests for smaller mailing lists seen by
Anand> listmaster these days. A lot of people don't bother to use
Anand> the main mailing l
* Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040326 21:10]:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 08:15:09AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote:
> > I herby propose the following editorial changes to the SC, as
> > alternative to Andrews proposal:
> Since ballot alternatives start out life as amendments to the current
> pro
I have just plowed through a large wad of messages on this thread, and
the only thing I have to say is that every everything I have read is
self justification or off topic crap.
In principle I agree with Craig. The arguments over non-free are just
plain stupid.
There is no contradiction betw
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 07:01:41PM +0100, Dale C. Scheetz wrote:
> There is no contradiction between declaring Debian to be totally about
> Free Software, and the maintaining of a section called non-free. The
> non-free packages are examples of software that fails to meet our
> definition of fre
I went to a site to to download 3d wolfenstein for
free, and up flashed a sign saying that I was the 50,000,000 visitor to the
site, and also I had won a prize. It told me to shut the window and
contact the prize department - which I did. When I got to the prize
departments site, all I fou
I think we should handle changes to each section separately. Of
course there are interactions between, but there are several discrete
proposals in each of the two version of changes, and I might like some
and not others. I would hate to have to vote against the ones I like
just because they are
Hi, Jonathan Walther wrote:
> I prefer my fellow Debian brothers to develop rhinocerous hides. :-)
Disregarding your smiley for a moment (I'm not sure what you want say with
it anyway): I disagree.
Rhino hides tend to come with Rhino horns, which people then get in the
habit of using as an all-p
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 08:15:09AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote:
> I herby propose the following editorial changes to the SC, as
> alternative to Andrews proposal:
Since ballot alternatives start out life as amendments to the current
proposal, I think it would be helpful if you could provide this as
> "Anand" == Anand Kumria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Anand> I, personally, suspect that the unfriendliness of Debian is
Anand> behind a lot of requests for smaller mailing lists seen by
Anand> listmaster these days. A lot of people don't bother to use
Anand> the main mailing l
* Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040326 21:10]:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 08:15:09AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote:
> > I herby propose the following editorial changes to the SC, as
> > alternative to Andrews proposal:
> Since ballot alternatives start out life as amendments to the current
> pro
I have just plowed through a large wad of messages on this thread, and
the only thing I have to say is that every everything I have read is
self justification or off topic crap.
In principle I agree with Craig. The arguments over non-free are just
plain stupid.
There is no contradiction betwee
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 07:01:41PM +0100, Dale C. Scheetz wrote:
> There is no contradiction between declaring Debian to be totally about
> Free Software, and the maintaining of a section called non-free. The
> non-free packages are examples of software that fails to meet our
> definition of fre
I went to a site to to download 3d wolfenstein for
free, and up flashed a sign saying that I was the 50,000,000 visitor to the
site, and also I had won a prize. It told me to shut the window and
contact the prize department - which I did. When I got to the prize
departments site, all I fou
I think we should handle changes to each section separately. Of
course there are interactions between, but there are several discrete
proposals in each of the two version of changes, and I might like some
and not others. I would hate to have to vote against the ones I like
just because they are
* Thomas Bushnell, BSG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040327 05:25]:
> I think we should handle changes to each section separately.
Sounds like a good idea.
Cheers,
Andi
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On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Of course there are interactions between, but there are several
> discrete proposals in each of the two version of changes, and I
> might like some and not others. I would hate to have to vote
> against the ones I like just because they are tied t
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