Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

Paul Johnson wrote:
Instead of ranting at how Debian sucks for taking the moral high ground, why
not rag on developers that take the moral low ground with inferior and
proprietary licensing? Why should Debian play nicely with developers that
won't play nice themselves? Why should Debian accomodate them? Debian's not
the one who sucks here...

Because Debian sucks just as much. What wins people over? It certainly
isn't "Oh, well, that can work if you do this and this and this..." Know what
most do "Ok, fine, hi Bill, here's another $300 for the pro edition this 3
years. See you in 3 more."

And if more people are won over and stay here and start demanding for the
same from those developers stuff gets done. 1% ain't gonna cut it. And a
subset of 1% certainly ain't gonna cut it.

Ultimatism and zealotry on both sides are just as bad. "You can't use
this because we say you can't." "You can't use this because we say its
BAAAAAD." What-ever.

Like I said up front, freedom, true freedom, means both the capacity to
succeed and fail. Succeed at running a pure OSS system or fail to do so. But
that is *MY* failure or *MY* success and not something that should be dictated
from on high on *either* side.

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