La Salle Debain

Open Source @ Consolidated Braincells Inc.

About La Salle Debain

This is a weblog I'm keeping about my work on Debian and any other useful Debian related info I come across. It is not meant to compete with other news sources like Debian Weekly News or Debian Planet. Mostly it is just a way for me to classify and remember all the random bits of information that I have floating around me. I thought maybe by using a blog it could be of some use to others too. Btw. "I" refers to Jaldhar H. Vyas, Debian developer for over 8 years. If you want to know more about me, my home page is here.

The name? Debain is a very common misspelling of Debian and la salle de bains means bathroom in French.

If you have a comment to make on something you read here, feel free to write to me at jaldhar@debian.org.

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Friday, April 18 2008

L'affaire Fucktard

Hi, Julien,

I agree that Debian is not dying and it was a bad PR move for Lucas to suggest it is, but what makes you think your response is any better from the PR perspective? I too have represented Debian at trade shows, LUGs etc. and I've had to deal with this topic before. My response is not to berate the holders of misinformation (and while I believe you when you say you were only aiming at Lucas, you used the plural so it would be easy for readers to be misled into thinking you meant multiple people.) but to emphasize that Debian is unique. Noone has conducted a social experiment of this type on this scale before and it is only natural for experiments to occasionally result in explosions and bad smells. Adopting this angle does not make us look bad and steers the questioner away from negative lines of thinking without belittling him. Much better PR don't you think?

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