Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 21, 2005 04:34 AM
Actually, he didn't say that he was a decision-maker in the Debian project. He was asked by Mr. Graham, the reporter, about whether or not his role as the Debian founder "creates tension" and "may even contribute to the current disagreement." Ian answered honestly, that he is in fact the founder of Debian, and he of course has opinions about Debian, to use his words, "just like everyone else."
Ian merely pointed out that the fact that he's Debian's founder might draw more attention to his opinions than those of others (e. g. mine), and he's right. It'd be like if Linus were for some reason to leave the Linux kernel project and someone asked him for his opinion on it. We would do exactly like you say--listen to his opinion "with utmost respect." That's all that's happening here as well.
In short, I thinking you're making a bit of a leap here. Again, he's not saying he's any sort of decision maker for Debian. I don't see where he tried even to imply it. He's just expressing his opinion, like any of the rest of us do, and remember that he was asked to do so here.
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Re:careful Ian!
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 21, 2005 04:34 AMIan merely pointed out that the fact that he's Debian's founder might draw more attention to his opinions than those of others (e. g. mine), and he's right. It'd be like if Linus were for some reason to leave the Linux kernel project and someone asked him for his opinion on it. We would do exactly like you say--listen to his opinion "with utmost respect." That's all that's happening here as well.
In short, I thinking you're making a bit of a leap here. Again, he's not saying he's any sort of decision maker for Debian. I don't see where he tried even to imply it. He's just expressing his opinion, like any of the rest of us do, and remember that he was asked to do so here.
I don't see anything inappropriate on this one.
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