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Ian Murdock: Debian "Missing a Big Opportunity"

Posted by Hemos on from the tsk-tsk-tsk dept.

Natester writes "While Debian struggles to get its next release (Etch) out the door, the project's founder, Ian Murdock, has spoken out about politics, the lack of firm leadership, and Ubuntu's meteoric rise in prominence. Murdock believes that Debian is "process run amok" — nobody feels empowered to make decisions, leading to the sluggish rate of progress."

11 of 330 comments (clear)

  1. The problem with Debian by wiredog · · Score: 4, Funny

    is Deb and Ian. That's what an IBM guy told me at FOSE a few years back.

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  2. Re:Firm Leadership by athloi · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought Open Source was about each of us having it our way instead. Compilation without representation is tyranny!

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  3. Re:Ian Murdock to join Sun by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Hi
    Ian,

    learn
    to
    use
    web
    forms
    properly
    before
    posting
    because
    now
    you
    look
    like
    a
    dumb
    intarweb
    n00b.

    thanks,
    anonymous
    coward.

  4. Wait a minute.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    by Anonymous Coward
    +

    I'm a long time Linux user, developer, and advocate.
    = WTF? Not every linux dev is a slashdot user?
  5. MAKE YOUR TIME by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    DEBIAN, MAKE YOUR TIME!

  6. Just keep Yoko out! by Dareth · · Score: 2, Funny

    As long as we don't let Yoko Ono into the Debian community, there is chance for reconciliation.

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  7. No chance to survive? by Medievalist · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought that was BSD...

  8. Debian Weekly News says it all by myowntrueself · · Score: 2, Funny

    http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/ says it all really...

    It is *called* 'weekly' news yet, in most cases, it comes out monthly.

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  9. Re:Ian Murdock to join Sun by glittalogik · · Score: 3, Funny

    Alright, which one of you is Spartacus?

  10. Re:Firm Leadership by Drooling+Iguana · · Score: 3, Funny

    And then when someone finally does go ahead and pick a colour it's the ugliest brown you've ever seen. Yeesh, what were they thinking?

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  11. Re:Slowness by cyberphotographer · · Score: 2, Funny

    On a point of pedantry, also you cannot have a meteoric rise. Meteors fall! Not in Australia