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On 2012.07.27 03:37, Duncan wrote: |
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[snip] |
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> Not that such promises hold much credibility anyway... see the kde |
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> promise (from Aaron S when he was president of KDE e.v. so as |
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> credible a spokesperson as it gets) continued kde3 support as long |
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> as there were |
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> users. (AFAIK, at least gnome didn't make /that/ sort of promise in |
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> the leadup to gnome3. And no, AS cannot be properly argued to have |
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> been |
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> referring to others, like debian with its slow release cycles, as he |
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> was |
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> president of kde ev, not president of debian, or of the trinity |
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> project, |
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> which AFAIK didn't even exist at the time, and didn't specify support |
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> from OTHERS, not kde, so he was clearly speaking for kde, not for |
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> other |
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> entities.) |
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> -- |
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> Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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> "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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> and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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Duncan, |
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You don't want to listen to Presidents too much. Look at other real |
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life examples. |
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Would you claim that the President of the Gentoo Foundation speaks for |
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Gentoo? |
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-- |
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Regards, |
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Roy Bamford |
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(Neddyseagoon) |
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Gentoo Foundation Inc. (President) |
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