Re: [platform] My little self-pumping/ego-trip/self-righteous speech :)

2001-02-21 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
uction of ftp-master and the confusion that arose with our sponsor of master (novare) was a jolly mess and should have been handled more carefully? Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu

Re: my answers to questions

2001-03-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
re. Commercial interests and free software have never conflicted in a fundamental way. It slips through a couple of other times in your mail, but I won't nag you by pointing them out. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus

Re: my answers to questions

2001-03-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 07:35:52AM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote: > On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 02:42:53AM -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote: > > > I do not want to see non-free more readily available, > > > I would in fact like for

Re: Some questions for the DPL candidates

2001-03-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
normal developer. If the DPL would just charge ahaead, it would trigger immediately a General Resoution to stop him (on such an issue anyway), with the same effect. But of course I can see that it is not as simple in real life. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.

Re: Some questions for the DPL candidates

2001-03-13 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 09:24:45AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > I would certainly not like to vote for someone who just said "I'll > support whatever the project supports", since that would not be a > "leader" at all, but a follower :) Strange enough, this is what the constitution expects the lead

Re: Some questions for the DPL candidates

2001-03-13 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
ight in the constitution against that. Until now, we have ever found out early enough when someone was visibly acting against the majority of the developers, for sure ;) Thanks for the clarification, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Some questions for the DPL candidates

2001-03-14 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 02:51:12PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 07:54:46PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 10:38:02AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > > You misunderstand. Having an opinion and trying to "lead" the

Re: New Debian Project Leader Chosen

2001-03-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
rred" has two r's. > > No. "Preferred" has three r's. And this sentence mentioning "preferred" has four, no, five r's. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU

Re: Status

2002-03-30 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 03:56:49AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Two acks could not be delivered since th messages could not be > encrypted. I confirmed it manually, the error was of the form: > gpg: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: skipped: unusable public key > > I am not sure what this mea

Re: Moving contrib and non-free of master.debian.org

1999-06-21 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
n god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09

Re: Moving contrib and non-free of master.debian.org

1999-06-21 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 12:43:26AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > YEAH!!! Wichert, you are my hero! Oops :) This should have been sent privately to Wichert. There is nothing confidential in it, but because it is not actually a useful contribution to this thread, please ignore

Re: free, freer, freest

1999-07-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
ck of understanding of the situation. Debian will stay the same. The proposed changes do not affect the content of the Debian distribution. They will not affect the number nor quality of non-free packages available from Debian hosted servers managed by Debian developers. If you think we are a second

Re: Proposed change to Debian constitution

1999-11-02 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
ot;The purpose of Free Software is Free Software. The End and the Means are the same." -- Craig Sanders Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Formal CFV: General Resolution to Abolish Non-Free

2000-06-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
PROTECTED]> > Seconds: Stephen R. Gore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Jim Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: CFV: Non-free archive removal

2000-08-23 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
sm TM um VM zm rc RE RL ro RS ru rw Rx r.Z)}. jargon: M RTM FM PM (TM) RE RL Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: PROPOSED: [CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT] disambiguation of 4.1.5

2000-10-10 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
; 6. Together with the Project Leader and SPI, make decisions about > property held in trust for purposes related to Debian. (See > s.9.1.) > == -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian h

Re: The constitution and the social contract

2000-10-30 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
r modifying ... " to the end. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de

Re: [platform] My little self-pumping/ego-trip/self-righteous speech :)

2001-02-21 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
on of ftp-master and the confusion that arose with our sponsor of master (novare) was a jolly mess and should have been handled more carefully? Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[E

Re: my answers to questions

2001-03-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
re. Commercial interests and free software have never conflicted in a fundamental way. It slips through a couple of other times in your mail, but I won't nag you by pointing them out. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus

Re: my answers to questions

2001-03-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 07:35:52AM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote: > On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 02:42:53AM -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote: > > > I do not want to see non-free more readily available, > > > I would in fact like for

Re: Some questions for the DPL candidates

2001-03-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
normal developer. If the DPL would just charge ahaead, it would trigger immediately a General Resoution to stop him (on such an issue anyway), with the same effect. But of course I can see that it is not as simple in real life. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.

Re: Some questions for the DPL candidates

2001-03-13 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 09:24:45AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > I would certainly not like to vote for someone who just said "I'll > support whatever the project supports", since that would not be a > "leader" at all, but a follower :) Strange enough, this is what the constitution expects the leade

Re: Some questions for the DPL candidates

2001-03-13 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
ight in the constitution against that. Until now, we have ever found out early enough when someone was visibly acting against the majority of the developers, for sure ;) Thanks for the clarification, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Some questions for the DPL candidates

2001-03-14 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 02:51:12PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 07:54:46PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 10:38:02AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > > You misunderstand. Having an opinion and trying to "lead" the

Re: New Debian Project Leader Chosen

2001-03-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
rred" has two r's. > > No. "Preferred" has three r's. And this sentence mentioning "preferred" has four, no, five r's. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de

Re: Status

2002-03-30 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 03:56:49AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Two acks could not be delivered since th messages could not be > encrypted. I confirmed it manually, the error was of the form: > gpg: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: skipped: unusable public key > > I am not sure what this mean

Re: Formal CFV: General Resolution to Abolish Non-Free

2000-06-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
PROTECTED]> > Seconds: Stephen R. Gore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Jim Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: CFV: Non-free archive removal

2000-08-23 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
sm TM um VM zm rc RE RL ro RS ru rw Rx r.Z)}. jargon: M RTM FM PM (TM) RE RL Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: PROPOSED: [CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT] disambiguation of 4.1.5

2000-10-10 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
; 6. Together with the Project Leader and SPI, make decisions about > property held in trust for purposes related to Debian. (See > s.9.1.) > == -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian h

Re: The constitution and the social contract

2000-10-30 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
r modifying ... " to the end. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]