Re: Editorial changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 11 Feb 2006, Jérôme Marant spake thusly: > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On 11 Feb 2006, Jérôme Marant outgrape: >> >>> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> >> On 9 Feb 2006, Jérôme Marant spake thusly: >>> The only people it made happy are extremists. >

Re: Editorial changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-12 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
2006/2/11, Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > There isn't anything to do with politess. If I hurted you, them please > accept my apologies. But I'm frank enough to express my view as I > feel them. As a non-native English speaker, the vocabulary might > not always be appropriate. Hmm, you should

Re: Editorial changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-11 Thread Jérôme Marant
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 11 Feb 2006, Jérôme Marant outgrape: > >> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > On 9 Feb 2006, Jérôme Marant spake thusly: >> The only people it made happy are extremists. >>> >>> Oh, so I am extremist now. By believing that al

Re: Editorial changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-11 Thread Jérôme Marant
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Would you please tell me how necessary it is to modify RMS essays, the >> GNU Manifesto, and so on, and how removing them from Emacs will make >> Debian more free? I'm afraid it sounds ideological. >

Re: Editorial changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 11 Feb 2006, Jérôme Marant outgrape: > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 9 Feb 2006, Jérôme Marant spake thusly: > The only people it made happy are extremists. >> >> Oh, so I am extremist now. By believing that all bits >> modifiable by the computer are software? And

Re: Editorial changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Would you please tell me how necessary it is to modify RMS essays, the > GNU Manifesto, and so on, and how removing them from Emacs will make > Debian more free? I'm afraid it sounds ideological. Actually, I'd rather we could keep them. And we do have

Re: Editorial changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-11 Thread Jérôme Marant
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>On 9 Feb 2006, Jérôme Marant spake thusly: The only people it made happy are extremists. > > Oh, so I am extremist now. By believing that all bits > modifiable by the computer are software? And the overwhelming Yes, I think it is an

Re: Editorial changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 9 Feb 2006, Marco d'Itri spake thusly: >On Feb 09, Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Moreover, while I think a majority of the developers are surely >> honorable, this is not true of everyone. Now that this is the *third* >> time we are being asked to vote on essentially the sa