I appreciate your position, Conrad. I will close with this. There are still threats regardless of the (fortunately) stupefying way the SCO lawsuits went. Microsoft has been waving the patent threat over Android and getting hardware suppliers that incorporate Android into their products to sign agreements and pay MS. Perhaps I have not been paying attention but I have not seen what patents are supposedly being infringed upon, if any. What do the alleged patents cover? I don't know. Could they cover the kernel or userspace common to Debian and other distributions or do they cover Android userspace? If it's the latter, it is not of much concern of Debian but the former would be important to know. That we don't know makes me think that this is little more than a revenue stream shakedown on the part of MS, but I cannot believe that with certainty.
One thing about Debian is that for those who believe strongly about it and the community, the door is open to becoming a Debian Developer and being able to participate in the project. So far I have not had that desire so I remain a user and watch from the bleachers. Part and parcel to that is accepting what the developers decide and if some change is intolerable, look elsewhere. So far elsewhere has led me back to Debian. Perhaps this is the best part of Debian, it's community can contain a wide swath of opinion and yet the project continues to produce an excellent product. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://www.n0nb.us -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131110132641.gi4...@n0nb.us
