Debian was not created as a doacracy of package maintainers,
that is a falsehood that the coupists keep repeating. Debian
was created as a universal operating system for the users.
Just as the Free Software movement itself was created NOT
for the developers and package maintainers of the software
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they never get through after that.
Shown below:
Don Armstrong
6:26 PM (11 hours ago)
to listmasters, me
On Thu, 25 Sep 2014, Gregory Smith wrote:
> That is the story, that is what has happened. They have taken our
> Linux distribution from us. The Frenchman above me is one of that
> nu
Club or not, common law criminal fraud applies.
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Ric Moore wrote:
> On 09/25/2014 02:25 PM, Joel Roth wrote:
>
> I would say that systemd takeover of major Linux distributions
>> and of Debian in particular would be a perfect subject
>> for Groklaw.
>>
>
> How so
First: I hope you are correct. Indeed, it doesn't have solely to do with
init, but this init change to systemd is the straw that brings everything
to the fore.
There is the disregard of the users of debian (who are not just users but
programmers in various free software projects), a betrayal of th
The debian developers did NOT select systemd. 4 people decided on systemd
in a technical committee, a split decision, which happened to be decided by
a vote from a chairman. There was no general resolution. Bringing this non
technical issue to the technical committee in the first place was an abuse
I was just banned from debian forum for posting a systemd critical message.
I posted the message found here:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/09/msg01834.html
It was deleted twice and then:
You have been *permanently* banned from this board.
Please contact the Board Administrator for
And the answer is no!
Of course.
The debian founding documents state that debian was created for the benefit
of the user.
(The premise of the whole free software movement is the rights of the user:
the developers rights are clearly best served by the standard proprietary
copyright regime)
We are t
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