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Debian DPL Threatens to Leave SPI Over Sun Java

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the honeymoon-is-over dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A three-week-long flame war in debian-devel over the new Java Distribution License has culminated in Anthony Towns, the newly elected Debian Project Lead, offering to separate Debian from its legal representative, SPI. This came as a response to SPI member John Goerzen's objections to the Debian project's interaction with Sun's legal team around the new JDL license without review from SPI's lawyers."

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  1. Fighting ideologic wars by wysiwia · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's sad that Debian always provoke such ideologic wars as if no more important work and decisions are needed. What does it matter if Java is in none-free or else. Who cares much except users who just want to download a distribution as easy as possible.

    IMO there are bigger issues at stake for Debian. The upcoming Ubuntu distribution is threatening to replace Debian as the leading distribution. The GPL v3 does nowhere fit in well into the DFSG. The Linux desktop while each year announced does not take place. It seems Debian people just fights these wars so nobody notices the real threads Debian is faced with.

    I've myself switched to Ubuntu since I'm not happy with Debian anymore and I'm most probably don't write about the Linux desktop in the Debian mailing lists anymore etc. Any I'm quite sure quite a lot of others do the same. I've simply got tired of all this ideologic stuff.

    O. Wyss

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    1. Re:Fighting ideologic wars by gowen · · Score: 1, Troll
      It's sad that Debian always provoke such ideologic wars as if no more important work and decisions are needed.
      Ideology is easy, releases are hard.
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      Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
  2. My favorite redundancy by twitter · · Score: 0, Troll
    Ho hum, redundancy in a summary blurb. How about mindless and meaningless redundancy in a world wide advertising campaign?

    M$ spent millions of dollars telling people that Windoze 2000 and XP were "based on NT Technology". NT itself stood for "Net Technology", making XP into a Technology Technology. What does it do? We don't know!

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    Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.