Debian: some people just don't get it
It was interesting to see the comments which Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols made about the Debian project recently. Interesting, because they resulted in a rejoinder from a Debian developer, Thaddeus Black - not a particularly prominent person in the project, not the leader. No, just one of the rank and file, he thought that Vaughan-Nichols' comments merited a response and submitted a very reasoned bit of prose.
You'd have to wonder why Vaughan-Nichols made what were at times incorrect and at other times naive comments about Debian. Was he playing the troll? Or was he genuinely unaware of the naivety of some of what he wrote?
For instance, he made a comment that he found it stupid that the Debian had renamed Firefox as Iceweasel, Thunderbird as Icedove, and Seamonkey to Iceape. A little bit of digging would have resulted in him finding out that there are genuine copyright reasons for this.
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