Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.
- From: Nic James Ferrier <nferrier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 19:59:27 +0100
Max Hyre <max@xxxxxxxx> writes:
Watch out for loaded words. The decision was indeed
``political'' in that it was put up to a vote, but
`politics' has negative connotations that I don't think
apply here. Each person voting, whether pro or con, was
voting out of principle, not because they'd been bribed, or
because they'd been forced to follow the party line. They
were deciding what the party line was to be.
This is politics at its best, and has no connection to
the operations of the U.S. legislative or executive
branches, which is what the word `political' is loaded with.
Indeed, better coordination in the transition (notably
pointing people toward the excised documents) would have
been a major improvement. However, ``because of a political
decision'' sounds like something derogatory. In what sense
do you mean for people to understand that phrase?
Firstly, I disagree that the word 'political' is loaded with
connections to the US legislative or executive branches; that is a
parochial view. I am from the UK, why would I make those associations?
In this instance, Debian the community of developers and package
maintainers, has made a politicial decision and then taken a mandate
for action from that which overreaches what should have been done.
As far as I can see, only a third of the electorate voted. And Debian
has a very limited electorate; I have been using Debian for 10 years;
I have contributed help and user conversions - but I don't get a vote.
What I'm saying is that care should have been taken with the
decision. It was a sensitive issue and what is being done is not
sensitive.
And I think that is *exactly* like politics elsewhere. I am not
surprised by that. But I am dissapointed and angry.
It is also interesting that a good number of people have seen nothing
wrong with the actions as they have been taken and I get taken to task
for bringing it up. That looks a lot like normal politics to me.
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Nic Ferrier
http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk
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