[talk-au] Bing
Steve Coast
steve at asklater.com
Mon Jul 11 18:11:35 BST 2011
On 7/11/2011 6:13 AM, Sam Couter wrote:
> Andrew Harvey<andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> That is, if OSM were as rigorous as Debian we wouldn't allow this as
>> it is in violation of point 8 of the DFSG
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_Free_Software_Guidelines
> I'm glad somebody has mentioned Debian. You want to see information freedom
> done right, a functioning do-ocracy and most importantly a transparent,
> democratic decision-making process, you don't need to look any further
> than Debian.
Debian's extremely open and democratic as you say.
The problem is for years it went nowhere and the Shuttleworth went on
his Antarctic cruise, figured out who was actually doing anything and
created Ubuntu. Slightly less democratic but vastly better at shipping
an OS anyone would want to use.
Steve
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