Distribution quotes of the week

I believe that a DPL election with a single candidate, no matter whom, would be unfortunate.

Campaigning periods are some of those few moments when people sit down and discuss publicly project vision, goals, "politics", etc. A campaign with a single candidate will diminish the attractiveness of posing questions to the sole candidate and, as a consequence, the interest of the debate. More generally, recent elections seem to show that the more the candidates, the more interesting and useful the debate.

... furthermore, I'm not ready to give up so easily the possibility of increasing my free time starting from April 18th :-)

I have a Samsung X120 notebook. Commiserate with me, please, for ever since F13's kernel went from 2.6.33 to 2.6.34, I've been without ACPI. Anything other than acpi=off in the boot settings produced a giant stack trace that scrolled off the tiny screen so fast and so early in the boot that only videoing the screen would have enabled me to transcribe it. Even boot_delay didn't work, because that won't delay every line of output when the kernel is curling up in a corner and dying.

Company A makes the recipe a little bit "un-free" because company B nor company C have the right to remove the "may contain traces of nuts" notice. But imagine that you would grant a cookie (spread) producer the freedom to remove the information "contains traces of nuts" from the list of ingredients. Such a freedom could lead to the death of a consumer who is allergic to nuts. It's hard to imagine that this would be the kind of freedom Debian pursues. I'd say this doesn't pass the Tentacles of Evil test, because intentionally or unintentionally removing such a message could harm a certain group of people. Note that the message isn't discriminating people allergic to nuts: it's not saying they shouldn't eat cookies containing nuts; it only says the cookies "may contain traces of nuts". It's up to the consumer to decide whether or not he wants to take the risk eating such a cookie.

"Exaggerating a bit" with the cookie metaphore, I see. ;-) Sure, maybe the consumer has a RIGHT to know that the PDF was created with iText, but he almost certainly doesn't care.

In the interest of full disclosure, I think I should mention that the message you're reading now was sent through Gmail, which I accessed on a TMobile-locked BlackBerry Bold 9780 (connected over WiFi to a Linksys router), running v6.0.0.285 of the BlackBerry OS. Portions of the browser are copyright 4thpass.