RE: Debian and Politeness

2013-05-20 Thread Mathieu ONeil
Hi all Delurking for a fast minute. Also, too: the way I understood it is possibly or amongst other things as a reference to an article published in New Media & Society which was mentioned on this list I think a few months ago. The article (whose exact title and author evades m

Re: Debian and Politeness

2013-05-20 Thread Sam Kuper
Hi Angela, On 20/05/2013, Angela Fuß wrote: > Hej Miriam, > >> Free Software is about meritocracy and elitism, or at least it >> pretends to be. > [...] > I think I do not really get what you want to say with that sentence. And as > I consider it a very interesting statement I thought I better as

Re: Debian and Politeness

2013-05-20 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2013/5/20 Angela Fuß : > Hej Miriam, > >> Free Software is about meritocracy and elitism, or at least it >> pretends to be. > > Can you explain that part a bit more? > Is that something that you sense or think how it is? > Or is it something that people say about Free Software or Debian? > Does Deb

Re: Debian and Politeness

2013-05-20 Thread Angela Fuß
Hej Miriam, > Free Software is about meritocracy and elitism, or at least it > pretends to be. Can you explain that part a bit more? Is that something that you sense or think how it is? Or is it something that people say about Free Software or Debian? Does Debian want to be a community with me

Debian and Politeness

2013-05-20 Thread Miriam Ruiz
Hi, I just wanted to move here an issue that arises now and then in Debian. That is, politeness and friendliness vs. technical competence. Quite a few people in the Free Software world seem to think -wrongly, in my opinion- that both things are opposed, and that a technical competent person won't