Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.
- From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 16:09:11 -0500
On 05/30/07 12:18, Nic James Ferrier wrote:
My name is Nic Ferrier. I am really ANGRY at Debian.
After 10 years of being a dedicated Debian user I have reached the
point at which I am so angry with what is being done that I want to
stop using it. I will start to look for viable alternatives to Debian.
A few weeks ago, as Emacs was nearing the end of it's long release 23
development cycle, I decided I would upgrade my emacs-snapshot.
Oh dear. emacs-snapshot is quite old and not recent at all. Hmmm,
what's happened to that I wonder? I go ask the maintainer of the
package. He tells me that Debian want him to remove the free
documentation from inside Emacs, a ludicrous suggestion frankly and
clearly detrimental to the package so he has stopped working on it. He
was quite right; in my opnion there is nothing else to do.
There are lots of emails on -devel and -legal about problems "they" have with the GFDL (Gnu Free Document License) regarding the DFSG.
[snip]
If anyone wants to setup an alternative, GNU friendly, single software
package archive they should get in touch with me privately.
Ubuntu?
--
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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