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Democratic Leadership (was: When can we expect a version 1.0 of the GNU
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Olaf Buddenhagen |
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Democratic Leadership (was: When can we expect a version 1.0 of the GNU Operating System?) |
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Tue, 2 Dec 2014 00:51:38 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
Hi,
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 11:17:59AM +0100, Garreau, Alexandre wrote:
> The GNU system is aimed to free users. And in my humble opinion it
> could better than other systems (the only really democratically
> developped, development-diffused and upstream distro today is Debian,
> and ???as Mozilla Firefox??? it???s not always making the best
> choices: see GNOME3, systemd???).
This is rather off-topic; but as it's such a common misconception, I'd
like to point out that democracy is only important for your freedom in
domains where everyone *has* to live with the government's decisions.
In the Free Software world on the other hand, it is generally quite
feasible simply to move elsewhere if you don't like some project's
decisions -- so there is no need for you to have an obligatory say in
any particular project.
Also note that Debian is not actually democratic in any meaningful way:
voting is limited to the select group of Debian Developers; while the
vast majority of people affected by the project's decisions -- namely
the "mere" users -- do not have any say.
-antrik-
- Democratic Leadership (was: When can we expect a version 1.0 of the GNU Operating System?),
Olaf Buddenhagen <=
- Re: Democratic Leadership (was: When can we expect a version 1.0 of the GNU Operating System?), Richard Stallman, 2014/12/02
- Re: Democratic Leadership (was: When can we expect a version 1.0 of the GNU Operating System?), Andreas Enge, 2014/12/02
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- Re: Democratic Leadership, Ludovic Courtès, 2014/12/02
- Re: Democratic Leadership, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2014/12/02
- Re: Democratic Leadership, Aurélien DESBRIÈRES, 2014/12/02
- Re: Democratic Leadership, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2014/12/02
- Re: Democratic Leadership, Aurélien DESBRIÈRES, 2014/12/02
- Re: Democratic Leadership, Aurélien DESBRIÈRES, 2014/12/02
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