Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (207 mails)

[Uwe Buckesfeld <u.buckesfeld@xxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 20 May 2009 11:25:46 Vincent Untz wrote:
> That being said, the guiding principles help explain the identity of the
> project, and of the community behind the project. That's why they are
> important, imho, and having people support them will strenghten our
> identity.
>
> Just to explain to you why some people think this kind of things is
> important (while for you, it's not that important): quite some
> contributors feel that they're helping making the world a better place
> by contributing to free software. It's not just an OS for those people.

I know. It's exactly this religious, or better missionary aspect of FOSS I 
don't share. It's a tad like Jehova's witnesses ringing your door bell: You 
are perfectly fine with the cosmos, and suddenly there are these friendly 
people who cannot understand why you are happy <G>

You'll probably never convince me we are talking about more than software. 
Nevertheless I consider myself part of the community, and I do what I think is 
good for the project.

Okay, I think we wasted enough time on the question why *I* don't sign the 
guiding principles. Back to the question why 6000 others don't :-)

Uwe

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