Florent Rougon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> More like that Debian packagers' views don't correspond with either >> the upstream free software authors' nor the users' views, and that > > How can you claim you know the users' views? I am a user, and my view is > that Debian did the right choice to remain consistent between writings > and actions. > >> Debian feels it has the right to teach both morals, making use of the >> means provided freely from upstream. > > This is your impression, because you are frustrated. Debian is no > person, Debian does not feel it has the right to teach morals, Debian: > > 1. has tried for a *long* time to resolve the issue with upstream; > > 2. went through a long, open and thorough debate, followed by a > democratic process whose outcome it is now rightfully following. > > I cannot see any problem here, except upstream's lack of cooperation
Upstream does not "cooperate". Upstream delivers. > and your frustration. If you're unhappy with the democratic choices > made "by Debian", as you like to say, then go build your own > distribution. If Debian is unhappy with the "unfree" software made "by GNU", as they like to say, then they should package something else. > Sorry if the last sentence sounds rude, but I am shocked by your > intellectual tyranny, denying us, Debian folks, the right to make > our own choices by open and democratic processes. Duplicity does not become magically something else if enough people vote for it. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
