Martin Michlmayr Wins DPL

Strike writes "The votes for the new Debian Project Leader are in and the tallying is over, results here. Martin Michlmayr comes out on top, winning 4-0 going head to head against the other three candidates (with the fourth win being over "no candidate"). Last year's DPL Bdale Garbee came in 2nd, with Branden Robinson and Moshe Zadka coming in 3rd and 4th. Michlmayr's platform can be seen here."

Comments

Re:Outcome

[electrician067]

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Re:I am so great

[Anonymous Coward]

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[Anonymous Coward]

Malda: Timothy, I've got some bad news. VA Software is bleeding red ink like a river of blood. We've got to rightsize someone, I think it has to be you.

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Uhh

[Anonymous Coward]

Welcome to the most boring web page on the face of the earth.

Thank you.

Yup

[0x0d0a]

I hope that you will elect me as the next Debian Project Leader because I am the person best suited to motivating and coordinating the Debian community.

I hold a Master degree in Philosophy and have recently completed a Master of Science in Psychology.

Yup. I'd say that this guy pretty much fits the Debian mold.

I suspect that someone like Linus would simply ignore the long, drawn out threads on licensing that the Debian team loves so dearly. ("Well, *this* package should be in nonfree because it depends on another package that is dual-licensed but has all new contributions donated only to the nonfree license version...").

Re:Yup

[0x0d0a]

That's one of the stupidest ad homonems I've ever seen on Slashdot, and that's saying something.

Frankly, I think a lot of people would hardly see that as an insult. If I say "most rabbis love long, complicated arguments about interpretations of religious law, though most people don't care in the least about such questions", I think you'd find a lot of rabbis and theologians that would agree. So?

Obviously, I really am not interested in spending hours of my time arguing over the particular classification of a package. It's pretty obvious that my viewpoint is not that of these folks. I'm simply pointing out that people on the Debian ML do do this, and that most people wouldn't. This guy is obsessed with the ideology, rather than the tech. You really can't argue that point.

If there weren't a number of geeks very concerned about things like licensing we wouldn't have Linux in the first place. We might have a nice kernel, but that's a long shot from a Free OS.

Besides the fact that that's completely irrelevant to what I said (I don't believe I said that people obsessed with legalities shouldn't exist), I think most people wouldn't care. What if FreeBSD was the big, popular, multi-distro OS that Linux is today. Would most of us *care* whether the kernel was BSD-licensed instead of GPL licensed? I sure as hell wouldn't.

Since it looks like this is getting into ideology, and you feel arguing ideological technicalities is fun, I'll play the game. I'll take ESR's viewpoint. ESR thinks that Open Source is better because it's *works better*. RMS thinks that Free software is better because it's ideologically distasteful to use non-Free software.

Logically, if open source software is superior, closed-source attempts to compete with it should fail (we'll assume perfect consumer information...naive model, but unless you really think that open source can be toppled by marketing...). So if MS takes the BSD kernel and tries to make a superior fork (closed source), they should lose out to the open source fork.

Therefore, I claim that the only people who claim that the GPL is necessary (rather than the BSD license) are those who (a) feel that open source software is inferior to closed source software, (b) feel that open source is so marginally better than closed source software that a simple influx of marketing will forever bar open source software from the market, or (c) are irrational.

Chew on that.

Debian's view is pretty simple: "If the software we use isn't Free, then someone can legally ask us to stop using it. Therefore, our operating system and its tools will always be Free, and no parts of it will ever depend on any software that is not Free."

I'm pretty sure that's *not* their view. If it is, it's wrong. There are plenty of non-Free licenses that someone cannot ask you to not use. Suppose you have to redistribute non-distributed modifications? That's incompatible with the GPL, so of course Stallman gets twitchy and calls it non-Free. But no one can ask you to "stop using the OS".

If that's not important to you keep using Red Hat, or Gentoo, or rolling your own.

Yeah, because Red Hat is just so anti-Free software.

I suppose you're the type to bitch about the ACLU being a bunch of extremists but posted a "Microsoft sucks" comment when they try to censor Slashdot, eh?

Actually, yes. You can't justify the ACLU's extreme viewpoints by arguing that the particular (IMHO egregious) case of MS censoring Slashdot is out of line. You're taking a slippery slope argument ("well, you don't support the ACLU, so you must support Microsoft censoring Slashdot").

There, that ideology-arguing enough for you?

Keeping up the Debian tradition

[Anonymous Coward]

Let's see if the new guy can keep true to the Debian social contract. This is the cornerstone of the Debian project, and really defines what it's all about. It's also primarily what differentiates it from other distros. Let's take a look at what he needs to maintain (taken from the Debian site):

- Release a new distro not more than once every two years. Do a smoke and mirrors job by screaming "but all you need is to apt-get update", and just gradually include all the packages you should have included in the first place over the course of the next 2 years.

- Try and remain a whole major kernel version behind. If this is not possible, at least maintain an old version so crusty old fucks running Debian on their 386SX, Mac LC-II or Sun IPX will stop e-mailing abuse.

- Continue work on crappy text-mode installers that don't detect or setup anything useful. See point above about keeping crusty old geriatrics buried deep away in university computer science departments, or academic research labs happy.

- Post constant drivel to Linux advocacy sites about the total superiority of your distribution in all areas. Maintain staunch arrogant composure even in the face of massive irrelevance to the Linux community at large, and generally declining interest even in key geek userbase. Resist temptation to ditch Debian from your machine at home (where you still haven't figured out how to get the USB mouse you got off your mother for Christmas last year working under X) and install Gentoo instead, since that's what every other Debian user is currently doing.

Yes...it's a tough job, but I'm sure he's up to it. We're all behind you! (That should be the motto for the Debian crew in general).

from the who-gives-a-fuck department

[Anonymous Coward]

I mean, the only people who use Debian are fat losers who live in their parents basement.

SlashCode is motherfucking fucked up

[Anonymous Coward]

Anyone else notice how the Slashcode is fucked up. The motherfucking REPLY button keeps fucking disappearing on me god its fucking annoying. Shit, how in the bloody hell can I make my motherfucking trolls with this shit going on. Someone betta reply soon and tell me what the fuck is going on. Did the Taco fellow just upgrade Slashcode or some shit. Inform this mofo please.