Re: Debian membership (with a twist)

1999-10-03 Thread Steve Willer
On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Yves Arrouye wrote: > Debian has some big advantages over any other distribution I know of > that make me want to contribute to Debian rather than another one. But > months for getting a membership, isn't that risking that new volunteers > will turn to Mandrake or Stampede for

Re: How not to be a nice person (Was: Re: Packages should not Conflict on the basis of duplicate functionality)

1999-10-02 Thread Steve Willer
On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Anthony Towns wrote: > And of course, everyone else on the list doesn't work in the "real world", > and just plays in their own little pointless sandpit. Feh. > > That *is* offensive. Well, you know what? In many cases, it's true. I have seen many people in the past few mont

Re: How not to be a nice person (Was: Re: Packages should not Conflict on the basis of duplicate functionality)

1999-10-02 Thread Steve Willer
On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Craig Sanders wrote: > "Excuse me. I work for TurboLinux." > > the implication here is that you know what you are talking about because > you work for a "real" (i.e. commercial) linux distribution. Either that, or you're attributing an attitude to him that doesn't ex