FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

Zenaan Harkness zen at freedbms.net
Wed May 21 00:53:26 UTC 2014


On 5/21/14, David Guntner <david at guntner.com> wrote:
> Celejar grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> [blah blah blah off topic blah blah blah]
>
> People, this off-topic thread has dragged on WAY too long.  There's a
> Debian off-topic mailing list, which exists specifically for that
> purpose - to let Debian users discuss things that aren't directly
> related to Debian.
>
> PLEASE, for the love of $DEITY and to have some compassion for the
> people who are on this list because they want to discuss and read things
> pertaining to the Debian OS without drowning in so much off-topic noise
> that the list is becoming rendered useless for that purpose, TAKE IT TO
> OFF-TOPIC.
>
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
>
> And no, the fact that the thing being discussed may or may not affect a
> particular software package that runs under Debian doesn't make it "on
> topic."
>
> Thanks.

David, thank you very much for your patience and repeated hints. Very
much appreciated.

The only enhancement I suggest for the future, is to at least CC the
offtopic list, to make it even easier for hint-challenged persons :/



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