Re: Hrm...

[George Bonser <grep@oriole.sbay.org>]

Was that pgp-signed?  Why would Bruce send it to himself?  Methinks it is
a hoax.



On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Erik Walthinsen wrote:

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>         pouellet@eng.utoledo.edu
> Subject: RE: Are we in this for ourselves?
> 
> Pat,
> 
> I understand your concern. I've been watching the Debian development for 
> about as long as anyone. We've gone from being the leaders to being a little
> hobby distribution, there's one Debian system for every 100 Red Hat systems
> now. The subscriptions on our mailing lists are half of what they used to
> be. The way we are running the project there is no chance that we will
> ever be much more than an auto-erotic exercise for programmers, who write
> for themselves instead of making anything that someone else would want to
> use. I find this distressing, because I feel that the work I put into Debian
> is being enthusiasticaly thrown away by developers who want it to be nothing
> more than their personal hobby.
> 
> It's for this reason that I've just resigned as president of SPI. I want
> no part of this rat pack any longer. I'm going to become a Red Hat user.
> 
> 	Bruce Perens
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