Re: Debian does not have customers, but users

2016-09-18 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 04:49:54PM +, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > On 2016-09-18 09:02:25 -0400 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote: > [...] > > There are many, many people who are users of Debian who do not > > contribute to the development of Debian, except possibly by way of > > filing bug reports. > >

Re: Debian does not have customers, but users

2016-09-18 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2016-09-18 09:02:25 -0400 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote: [...] > There are many, many people who are users of Debian who do not > contribute to the development of Debian, except possibly by way of > filing bug reports. > > As such, "people making Debian" is at most a subset of "users of > Debian"

Re: Debian does not have customers, but users

2016-09-18 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting The Wanderer (2016-09-18 15:02:25) > On 2016-09-18 at 08:40, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 02:00:26PM +0200, Abou Al Montacir wrote: > > > >> you will end being a community of geeks developing SW for > >> themselves only. > > > > Debian is a volunteer project made b

Re: Debian does not have customers, but users

2016-09-18 Thread The Wanderer
On 2016-09-18 at 08:40, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 02:00:26PM +0200, Abou Al Montacir wrote: > >> you will end being a community of geeks developing SW for >> themselves only. > > Debian is a volunteer project made by its users. > > So we are already a community developing S

Re: Debian does not have customers, but users

2016-09-18 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 02:00:26PM +0200, Abou Al Montacir wrote: > you will end being a community of geeks developing SW for themselves only. Debian is a volunteer project made by its users. So we are already a community developing SW for ourselves, the users, and there is nothing wrong with th

Re: Debian does not have customers, but users

2016-09-18 Thread Abou Al Montacir
On Sat, 2016-09-17 at 13:11 +0200, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > On 2016-09-16 21:26, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > > What about the term client? ;-) > > What about the term "users"? > > (We use the word already in our social contract > and IMHO it serves us well.) I see that most people are intereste

Re: Debian does not have customers, but users

2016-09-17 Thread W. Martin Borgert
On 2016-09-16 21:26, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > What about the term client? ;-) What about the term "users"? (We use the word already in our social contract and IMHO it serves us well.)