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[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo.moya@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 06:22 -0400, fabrice quenneville wrote:
> Hi Rodrigo,
> 
> 
> Because we believe a Rolling Release is the way to go for simplicity a
> desktop use should NEVER have to reinstall. We believe releases either
> push the developers too hard and brings bugs (Ubuntu)  OR freeze for
> too long and end up stagnating (Debian)(This is just a point of view,
> its a question of taste and choice, i guess theres a need for
> everything). We want to be the middle ground, bug / time / package
> feature release.
> 
> 
> Debian is beautiful where it can offer the most sable
> do-it-all easily distro. From the HPC to the netbook, but the fact
> that they wont integrate some key closed source parts hinders it
> towards its competitors. We dont mind SOME closed source software, so
> we will have the few missing features to make the desktop environment
> more attractive to both the open minded Linux users (i believe block
> ALL closed source software is as bad as saying open-source is evil and
> will destroy the world) we will just inform the user and offer an easy
> way to opt-out and remove it.
> 
> 
> We are unique and needed, we are the middle ground. And at the end of
> the day if we can get a few windows users to switch over isnt that
> good for everyone ?
> 
> 
of course it is, but as Bilal said in his mail, what you're trying to
achieve is already available in Debian, so we're just trying to save you
a lot of work, since maintaining a distro would need your team to have
10s or even 100s of people working actively on it. If you can and want
to do that, go ahead, but if not, you'd better put your effort in an
ongoing project, like Debian or Ubuntu or any other distro you like.