Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 01:21:33AM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: >> Raul Miller wrote: >> > * There are people in Debian. >> Fine, there are a bunch of silly interpretations as well. The context >> indicates that "Debian" means "the Debian system" or "the Debian >> distribution". You could interpret it as meaning "the Debian Project", >> but that would be silly, because it would make the whole Social Contract >> make >> no sense whatsoever. (Are you software? Are you free software?) > > I think you are being too quick to dismiss Raul's comments. He has > pointed out in the past that "Debian" means a lot of different things; > it's a project, an OS, among others. > > So "Debian will remain 100% Free Software" is not entirely clear, > given that Debian is a bunch of people in certain contexts. > Why not spell out the context?
Quite right and perfectly reasonable -- spelling out the context is a fine idea. But it's essentially a different topic from the message Raul was replying to, which was explaining that there are only two possible ways to interprent the "...will remain 100% Free Software" part of the sentence, and that his "and/or" interpretation simply wasn't one of them. > Hamish -- Make sure your vote will count. http://www.verifiedvoting.org/
