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Debian Project Votes To Postpone Policy Changes
jonoxer writes "A little while ago members of the Debian project voted to make changes to the Social Contract. As previously reported on Slashdot, the end result looked likely to be a delay in the release of Sarge, the next Stable edition of Debian, until 2005. But on Saturday Debian developers voted to postpone the changes until after Sarge releases, effectively affirming that the changes need to be made but making a pragmatic decision to not let the next release be delayed as a result. The official voting page doesn't show the result yet, but it's been semi-officially announced."
debian desktop? What kind of crack are you smoking?
(we had to roll out sarge (as it was back then) because woody had no support for the graphic hardware in the dell desktop boxes we were going to have to use. Its been a pain in the butt ever since).
go mandrake.
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
The big problem (though it's not new) is that Debian still considers GPLed software -- even though it's encumbered by a long, complex, and incredibly restrictive license -- to be "free." (They even capitalize "Free," indicating religious faith rather than rational thinking.) Any software license that is so complex that it takes up more than a page (or even a few paragraphs) certainl is not "free."