Re: [Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-21 Thread P. T. Zoltowski
RMS stance is understandable, because he is also responsible for the current situation. He failed to predict it, and his dream is now turning into another Animal Farm, where some developers are becoming more equal than others (it's an open question if there was a better strategy possible when GPL w

Re: [Dng] greets

2015-03-14 Thread P. T. Zoltowski
> But this is all very off the mark. You are describing liberalism > (libertas--freedom) here, an impoverished individualism that does not at all > capture the essence of democracy, which is, instead, the idea that people > (demos) retain their own power (kratia), and actively use it to make > dec

Re: [Dng] greets

2015-03-11 Thread P. T. Zoltowski
> Here's a story . . . my local food co-op recently had a vote to boycott a > product. There are @16,000 members. In the end the vote was 639 for the > boycott and 338 against. I call it the tyranny of the majority of the > minority. Still leaves a bitter taste . . . > > The point being that un

Re: [Dng] [bikeshedding] release names

2015-03-06 Thread P. T. Zoltowski
Sorry, it's probably my fault, and I should start a new thread for it. Just let me explain what I really meant, it wasn't actually about release names, but for some ideas for Devuan, it happens that they influence these names also, so I put it here. I thought one of possibilities could be the split

Re: [Dng] release names

2015-03-04 Thread P. T. Zoltowski
2015-03-05 2:36 GMT+01:00, Ricardo LarraƱaga : > So, basically we will be using mithology for names. Ahead on the list it > gets a little more variety, but initially is mostly gods and godess Well, I think this is a good reminder. That even things people once thought as all powerful, always end up

Re: [Dng] Disnovation: an inquiry into the mechanics and rhetoric of innovation

2015-02-28 Thread P. T. Zoltowski
Mother Nature had to solve that problem a long time ago. The only reason it's not so obvious it's because our notion of evolution was created (or rather I should say distorted) by a fascist minded people. At the core of all life lies DNA replication, which is just copying itself as best as possible

Re: [Dng] Community polls on Devuan design

2015-02-08 Thread P. T. Zoltowski
I would vote for http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/File:Negative_galaxy_banner.png but I would change the direction of the spirals, now they are in the opposite direction to text, creating some dissonance. I think it's better to avoid any resemblance to debian logo, for obvious reasons. And