Re: not a first amendment question

1997-11-30 Thread bruce
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) > I'm _seriously_ offended by this. The idea that the bible (or quake) has > more redeeming features than purity is ridiculous. You're being sarcastic, right? > By the way, why the move to -devel? I didn't do it. Bruce

Re: DEBIAN ANNOUNCES $1000 GRANT TO GNOME PROJECT

1997-12-01 Thread bruce
Oops, I left an SMTP command at the end of that message. Did you see it? Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

various computers for adoption

1997-12-02 Thread bruce
ac II. Amiga 3000. Runs. Thanks Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Debian GNU/Linux Logo chosen

1997-12-02 Thread bruce
gov if you don't believe in those). He can register it if he wishes, but he has rights whether or not he registers it. Thanks Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: regarding the recent problems with http://www.debian.org

1997-12-02 Thread bruce
Watch out, they haven't done the IP number change yet. Hopefully I can get it done tomorrow. Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Debian Commercial Support

1997-12-03 Thread bruce
I moved this discussion to debian-consultants. I'll eventually move it to my own list server. Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: debian 1.3.2

1997-12-06 Thread bruce
There are patches to a number of packages on the ftp site. 2.0 is in the directory "hamm", you can run it if you are real brave but be sure to find the document on how to upgrade first. It's still months from release. Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Package Category tool demo

1997-12-09 Thread bruce
s < Networking", it will select that category. Obviously, you have to make your categories have no conflicting packages. I figured out how to de-select a category, but the demo won't do that. Thanks Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: fdisk3

1997-12-12 Thread bruce
The author seems to have dropped the project after releasing fdisk3. There never has been a good user interface for it. Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Hardware Question

1997-12-13 Thread bruce
Just what operating system do you want to run? If the answer is Debian Linux, please re-post this question to debian-user@lists.debian.org . If it's windows, please find someone else to help you, we only do Linux. Thanks Bruce Perens -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LI

developer lists to leave news gateway

1997-12-13 Thread bruce
. Thanks Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: 68k test machine?

1997-12-13 Thread bruce
Does that mean there's a Mac kernel now? Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Hardware Question

1997-12-13 Thread bruce
many people reading it as debian-devel, and since those people are looking for user questions like yours to answer, it's most likely that you will find a detailed answer there. Bruce Perens -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL

Re: 68k test machine?

1997-12-13 Thread bruce
There's a box in the garage here that says "Mac IIx". I've been holding on to it hoping that it might someday support the 68k port. Any chance of that? Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Debian-devel subscriber count

1997-12-13 Thread bruce
Goodness gracious. Debian-devel has >400 subscribers. Must be a lot of lurkers. Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

news gateways

1997-12-13 Thread bruce
archives of the mailing lists? Do we need to add something there to keep them from being indexed? Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

mailing list hiccup

1997-12-14 Thread bruce
Our SMTP server on the master system stopped answering for a little while. I sent a hangup to inetd and it started behaving again. Some list articles were delayed, and some are sitting at our alternate MX host right now and will eventually make it to the list. Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: unstripped stuff in /usr/lib

1997-12-14 Thread bruce
7;s use them :-) Most hated feature of HURD systems - everything comes unstripped, minimum system is 300MB. Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: news gateways

1997-12-14 Thread bruce
ers because of stuff I posted a year ago. I can deal with this, but it seems to annoy Ian Jackson (see his posting). Maybe we need our own separate Internet, with an intelligence test required to get in. That's sort of what the Internet was like as recently as 3 years ago. Thanks

Re: developer lists to leave news gateway

1997-12-14 Thread bruce
stay on the gateway. I'm trying to be responsive to the other developers. Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

new GTK+ release

1997-12-14 Thread bruce
There is a new GTK+ release 0.99.0 . This is coordinated with the upcoming GIMP 0.99.16 release. Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: news gateways

1997-12-15 Thread bruce
e it would "unsettle people". I think it's nice for the public to see that we have a vigorous developer community, which they can do any time they check the newsgroup - consider the marketing value of this - no other distribution is nearly as open about their development. Than

Re: 2.0.32, XNvidia, Vtk

1997-12-15 Thread bruce
Vtk would fit in non-free. I think it's worth it to ask them to modify their license to fit the DFSG, I'll fire off a note. This probably means changes in diff files only (which Ian hates, but I still think is a good compromise). Thanks Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM TH

Re: Semi-important: tearing my hair out over libgtk problems

1997-12-15 Thread bruce
It doesn't happen on my laptop running Debian 1.3 or my SGI running IRIX. I bet it's a GLIBC 2.0 interaction. Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: SPI money out

1997-12-16 Thread bruce
ch for fund-raising, which we will definitely have. Art prints? Hm. Perhaps we can get Simon to make a signed and numbered penguin. Thanks Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: redirecting stderr to memory

1997-12-16 Thread bruce
us, running multiple instances of busybox should be more economical than running its components as separate executables. Why did you think I linked all of those programs together? It was to save memory. Thanks Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word &qu

Re: SPAM to mailing lists! STOP NOW.

1997-12-16 Thread bruce
Dear Robert, We do use qmail. If you would like to maintain our spam filter, I will give you a login on the list server. Thanks Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Redhat not in favor of Qt & KDE - documented?

1997-12-21 Thread bruce
Red Hat doesn't like KDE because Qt because is not free software by _their_ definition, either. They support the GNOME development, and were happy to see Debian doing so as well. Thanks Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe&

Re: IconPath, menu

1997-12-21 Thread bruce
Brian, Please go ahead and package it. When I built it, I left out the Qt support, however you can package the Qt support separately in "contrib" because it's dynamicaly loaded. Thanks Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "un

Need packager for Faq-O-Matic

1997-12-23 Thread bruce
Faq-O-Matic is a FAQ generation system - it allows people to add stuff to a FAQ via a CGI interface, and it displays it, etc. I would like someone who is better with Perl than I to package it. Please see: http://www.dartmouth.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/jonh/faq.pl Thanks Bruce

Minivend

1997-12-23 Thread bruce
Minivend is a GPL-ed online ordering application. It's worth looking at (and I'm sure one of you will want to package it). See: http://www.minivend.com/minivend/ Thanks Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe"

Re: Motif Software

1997-12-24 Thread bruce
First, try "lesstif", which is packaged with Debian and is free software. If you have the source for your application, it might work with lesstif, and then you won't need a motif package. Thanks Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word &

Re: Minivend

1997-12-25 Thread bruce
Huh? Is PerlShop a separate product, or a component of MiniVend? How far into the egg-nog were you when you wrote that message? Thanks Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Ideas for new programs

1997-12-25 Thread bruce
tween the time when you select a package and when it is actually installed. Thanks Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: hamm base disks?

1997-12-30 Thread bruce
I will be working on the boot-floppies package for the next few days. Hopefully I will have a working boot-floppy tomorrow. I would generate a set of base disks after that if nobody else has. Thanks Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubs

GIF patent issue

1997-12-31 Thread bruce
Please be aware that the GIF patent issue is for WRITERS only. Readers do not use the patented algorithm. Often you can put the writer in non-free and leave the rest of the program in main. Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe"

Re: My own libc6 progress, and package adoption drive. Give me an account on master!

1998-01-01 Thread bruce
OK, I put all of that stuff in Incoming. Thanks Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade

1998-01-01 Thread bruce
the moment. Thanks Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade

1998-01-01 Thread bruce
Richard, Is libc5-altdev OK in its present state? Thanks Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

RE: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade

1998-01-01 Thread bruce
make this automatic with pre-depends or not. Thanks Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: debian 2.0 - any dates?

1998-01-01 Thread bruce
What's going on is that we will have an alpha-testable system by the weekend with any luck, and we can then set deadlines. Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: My own libc6 progress, and package adoption drive. Give me an account on master!

1998-01-02 Thread bruce
ys ago and are processing it. They usually take longer than that. Thanks Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: killall is removed from procps

1998-01-02 Thread bruce
Nobody's going to be upset if you create the new package. I think you should go ahead. Thanks Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade

1998-01-02 Thread bruce
OK, I think the patch is only necessary for libc5 run-time. Thanks Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Financial support

1998-01-02 Thread bruce
It's not _my_ corporation. It's got 4 people on the board. Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade

1998-01-02 Thread bruce
It looks as if Richard has taken care of libc5, and libc5-altdev doesn't need a change. Dale, did you do the ae-using-slang upload? I'm going to need that soon. Thanks Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL P

tecra patch?

1998-01-02 Thread bruce
Who maintains the "tecra patch", and where can I find it? Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Non-interactive installs [Re: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade]

1998-01-05 Thread bruce
the package be installed to run. See http://www.caldera.com/coas . Thanks Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Debian and the millenium bug

1998-01-05 Thread bruce
Well, there is a problem with the Gregorian calendar that has to be dealt with in 2000 years or so (having to do with leap-millenia), but I figure if it's more than 100 years it's no problem. Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubsc

Re: Debian and the millenium bug

1998-01-06 Thread bruce
Remember Emerson: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds." Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Debian and the millenium bug

1998-01-06 Thread bruce
> Why does glibc2 not use long long (64 bits) for dates, insead of long int > (32 bits)? Surely we ought to change this now along with all the other > libc6 changes? We have to get POSIX to bless it first. We have 40 years to do it, relax. Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THI

Re: Screen-refresh in vi

1998-01-06 Thread bruce
VI? You mean "elvis", "vim", or "nvi"? Elvis seems to be somewhat flakey on hamm. Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Webmin .. ?

1998-01-06 Thread bruce
It's OK to package it if you can get the license straight, but I think it makes sense for us to base our system-management strategy on COAS (see http://www.coas.org/) . Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . T

Bug#4150: (no subject)

1996-08-14 Thread bruce

Bug#4228: syslogd loops

1996-08-22 Thread bruce
message repeated 103329 times Aug 21 14:01:17 beagle last message repeated 244779 times Aug 21 14:02:17 beagle last message repeated 245329 times and so on... Thanks Bruce

Bug#4429: gcc argument validation could be better

1996-09-07 Thread bruce
t is less than informative. Thanks Bruce

Re: Need IRC help for "Open Source / Open Science" conference

1999-10-01 Thread bruce
Oops. I sent that message regarding "need IRC help". I think the return address on the previous mesage is no good. Bruce

Re: Need IRC help for "Open Source / Open Science" conference

1999-10-01 Thread bruce
Thanks, Johnny. Bruce

development environment question

2003-12-03 Thread bruce
Debian has put together with it's development environment, that there might be people on this list who might be able to provide some pointers. All reasonable pointers/assistance will be helpful. Thanks Bruce Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] (925) 866-2790

RE: development environment question

2003-12-03 Thread bruce
initial thoughts were of University/Computer labs... But even these are a little more tied down... Thanks -Bruce -Original Message- From: John Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 10:25 AM To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: development environment

apt-proxy v2 and rsync

2004-10-26 Thread Ian Bruce
message: Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 07:10:28 -0700 From: Ian Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: apt-proxy v2 and rsync I was distressed to read the following in the documentation for the new apt-proxy: - rsync is not officially supp

Legal budget and Director-and-officer insurance related to packages with "adult" themes

2004-12-04 Thread Bruce Perens
al overhead without placing a burden on the rest of the Debian project. Until such a thing happens, I am assuming that the load of this shall be upon Debian's general fund. Thanks Bruce smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Questionable image process. Was: Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- (abusive?) erotic images in Debian

2004-12-04 Thread Bruce Perens
o maintain privilege so that we don't have to report to a court what we discussed with our attorney. It's not yet clear to me that stuff we post to debian-private is still under privilege. I'd have to ask our lawyer. Thanks Bruce

Re: Legal budget and Director-and-officer insurance related to packages with "adult" themes

2004-12-04 Thread Bruce Perens
. Thanks Bruce smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Legal budget and Director-and-officer insurance related to packages with "adult" themes

2004-12-04 Thread Bruce Perens
learning. Thanks Bruce smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Legal budget and Director-and-officer insurance related to packages with "adult" themes

2004-12-05 Thread Bruce Perens
ating that continue to remain ignorant about the implications of the issue. That could be suicide for the project. Thanks Bruce Andrew Suffield wrote: You go off and do that then, and leave the rest of us out of it like you did with the much more serious issue of copyright and patent laws. You

Re: Legal budget and Director-and-officer insurance related to packages with "adult" themes

2004-12-05 Thread Bruce Perens
have not come to any definition for the project, or any process to go along with the definition. Thanks Bruce

Re: Questionable image process. Was: Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- (abusive?) erotic images in Debian

2004-12-05 Thread Bruce Perens
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: You're looking at this from a US-centric viewpoint, Bruce, and extending this to the whole Project. Because I am one of the people with legal responsibility for the U.S. incarnation of the project. I acknowledge that there are many other jurisdictions where our p

Re: Questionable image process. Was: Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- (abusive?) erotic images in Debian

2004-12-05 Thread Bruce Perens
frontends. One should have to take some deliberate action before seeing those files. This might be choosing an appropriately marked Jigdo file, or adding a package repository. Thanks Bruce

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-05 Thread Bruce Perens
ur servers. This is not a subtle difference. Steve Agreed. We are obligated to respect your right of free speech. We aren't obligated to provide the venue for your speech. Thanks Bruce

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-05 Thread Bruce Perens
discussed is whether the Debian project should distribute that package. Debian's official repository is not the only way in which packages can be distributed. Thanks Bruce

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-05 Thread Bruce Perens
they know what's right, but have not walked through all of the implications and distilled it to process, and aren't interested in doing that work. Thanks Bruce smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Legal budget and Director-and-officer insurance related to packages with "adult" themes

2004-12-05 Thread Bruce Perens
Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: <>Of course. But you haven't proposed a process, so why are you complaining about us using the process we have? If I do all of the work, I'll win arguments about the policy. That's OK with me, but some of you might want to get there first.

Re: Questionable image process. Was: Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- (abusive?) erotic images in Debian

2004-12-05 Thread Bruce Perens
to take on a problem. Thanks Bruce smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Legal budget and Director-and-officer insurance related to packages with "adult" themes

2004-12-05 Thread Bruce Perens
? You know full well from Debian history that if one person does the work, they generally get to have it their way. Thanks Bruce Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Who says? If you are saying that you'll get legal advice, and subvert the process, so that we can't trust it, thanks for the w

Debian's status as a legal entity and how it could effect a potential defense.

2004-12-05 Thread Bruce Perens
Andrew Suffield wrote: The project does not exist as a legal entity. It's more complicated than you think. Is Debian a legal entity? The answer is unquestionably yes. The only question is what kind of legal entity it is. The most likely two are: 1. An unincorporated association that has a contrac

Re: Debian's status as a legal entity and how it could effect a potential defense.

2004-12-05 Thread Bruce Perens
next one comes in. Thanks Bruce smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Debian's status as a legal entity and how it could effect a potential defense.

2004-12-05 Thread Bruce Perens
cy, sexual orientation, disability, or other factors protected by law.     Thanks     Bruce smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Debian's status as a legal entity and how it could effect a potential defense.

2004-12-06 Thread Bruce Perens
d take action against the person involved.     Thanks     Bruce Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: And you have evidence that the inclusion of such an image in a bulk archive, which is present in a merely passive manner, runs afoul of this provision? It seems to me that a hostile workplace is not crea

Re: Debian's status as a legal entity and how it could effect a potential defense.

2004-12-06 Thread Bruce Perens
least. In your workplace? Au contrare.     Thanks     Bruce smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Debian's status as a legal entity and how it could effect a potential defense.

2004-12-06 Thread Bruce Perens
support themselves by doing the legal homework to support the content they desire. The entire project is burdened by it, and as one of the directors I am expected to clean up after them. Bruce smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Debian's status as a legal entity and how it could effect a potential defense.

2004-12-06 Thread Bruce Perens
their own. That would be very unsympathetic toward the role of people who do the project a lot of good. Thanks Bruce smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Debian's status as a legal entity and how it could effect a potential defense.

2004-12-06 Thread Bruce Perens
n and allow them to decide what not to reject.     Thanks     Bruce smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-06 Thread Bruce Perens
ty to distributing it. Thanks Bruce smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-06 Thread Bruce Perens
Manoj Srivastava wrote: Who's we here, kemo sabe? Last I looked, you are not a project member. You haven't looked in a while. Bruce smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-06 Thread Bruce Perens
er keyring more than 11 months ago and meet all necessary qualifications of a Debian developer. Thanks Bruce smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

A thought on policy

2004-12-06 Thread Bruce Perens
the Debian project. Something like this could potentially give us a framework to discuss actions of the project that we have no good way of making decisions about today.     Thanks     Bruce smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Debian's status as a legal entity and how it could effect a potential defense.

2004-12-06 Thread Bruce Perens
ome extent.     Thanks     Bruce smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: charsets in debian/control

2004-12-06 Thread Bruce Perens
rince" :-) Bruce

Re: Debian package selection depending on user location/belief/society(was bug #283578 hot-babe (AGAIN :-)))

2004-12-06 Thread Bruce Perens
at is your responsibility as someone who lives elsewhere? In some cases the two nations have an extradition treaty. But even if there is no such thing, it is inconsiderate to hand the user or mirror operator a ticking bomb. Thanks Bruce

Is Debian a common carrier? Was: package rejection

2004-12-07 Thread Bruce Perens
have ruled that they are not. I don't think we have the slightest chance of proving to any court that Debian is a common carrier, given the several inches of policy manual that specify the nature of the content, etc. Thanks Bruce

Re: Is Debian a common carrier? Was: package rejection

2004-12-07 Thread Bruce Perens
the slightest chance of convincing a court that we're a common carrier. Thanks Bruce

Re: Is Debian a common carrier? Was: package rejection

2004-12-07 Thread Bruce Perens
-discriminatory fashion, which is what a common carrier does. I guess Akamai would be the closest example today to a mirror operating this way.     Thanks     Bruce smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Is Debian a common carrier? Was: package rejection

2004-12-08 Thread Bruce Perens
r the many ISPs which provide general HTTP caching services through Squid. Whether as a transparent or voluntary proxy, the goal of these caches is to improve content availability and transfer speed, while reducing bandwidth costs. That's the best example we have, I think. Thanks Bruce

Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-08 Thread Bruce Perens
on to influence the project. The other members are willing to have us on those terms. Thanks Bruce

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-08 Thread Bruce Perens
for some people. Of course we want to see everyone involved bearing some of that load, rather than Debian bearing the lion's share of it.     Thanks     Bruce On Wed, 08 Dec 2004, Steve Langasek wrote: How in the world does changing the names of core system libraries serv

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-08 Thread Bruce Perens
an you provide pointers to concrete LCC proposals of library renames, so that I can get comfortable with the technical specifics of what's really at issue here? They don't exist yet. If we work on this now, we get to make sure we'll be comfortable with them.     Thanks     Bru

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-09 Thread Bruce Perens
ide a canonical widget set on top of other manufacturer's hardware, and MS ate the X consortium's lunch. Thanks Bruce smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-09 Thread Bruce Perens
Jim Gettys wrote: Pay for say, and centralized development teams funded by such payers, are a major trap. Let's make sure to keep giving OSDL that message. Thanks Bruce smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-09 Thread Bruce Perens
ctures, simply because most of our architectures are not in common with the rest of LCC. I think it would be great to get this far. At that point we could decide if there is any purpose in using the same compile as other folks. Thanks Bruce smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

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