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Posted by Hemos on Monday March 19, 2007 @12:15PM from the tsk-tsk-tsk dept.

Natester writes "While Debian struggles to get its next release (Etch) out the door, the project's founder, Ian Murdock, has spoken out about politics, the lack of firm leadership, and Ubuntu's meteoric rise in prominence. Murdock believes that Debian is "process run amok" — nobody feels empowered to make decisions, leading to the sluggish rate of progress."

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The problem with Debian (Score:5, Funny)

by wiredog ( 43288 ) writes: on Monday March 19, 2007 @12:30PM (#18402603) Journal

is Deb and Ian. That's what an IBM guy told me at FOSE a few years back.

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Re:Firm Leadership (Score:4, Funny)

by athloi ( 1075845 ) writes: on Monday March 19, 2007 @12:47PM (#18402829) Homepage Journal

I thought Open Source was about each of us having it our way instead. Compilation without representation is tyranny!

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Re:Ian Murdock to join Sun (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday March 19, 2007 @12:54PM (#18402909)

Hi
Ian,

learn
to
use
web
forms
properly
before
posting
because
now
you
look
like
a
dumb
intarweb
n00b.

thanks,
anonymous
coward.

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Wait a minute.. (Score:4, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday March 19, 2007 @01:19PM (#18403205)

by Anonymous Coward
+
I'm a long time Linux user, developer, and advocate.
= WTF? Not every linux dev is a slashdot user?

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MAKE YOUR TIME (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday March 19, 2007 @01:27PM (#18403303)

DEBIAN, MAKE YOUR TIME!

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Just keep Yoko out! (Score:3, Funny)

by Dareth ( 47614 ) writes: on Monday March 19, 2007 @02:24PM (#18404037)

As long as we don't let Yoko Ono into the Debian community, there is chance for reconciliation.

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No chance to survive? (Score:3, Funny)

by Medievalist ( 16032 ) writes: on Monday March 19, 2007 @04:03PM (#18405285)

I thought that was BSD...

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Debian Weekly News says it all (Score:3, Funny)

by myowntrueself ( 607117 ) writes: on Monday March 19, 2007 @04:21PM (#18405551)

http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/ [debian.org] says it all really...

It is *called* 'weekly' news yet, in most cases, it comes out monthly.

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Re:Ian Murdock to join Sun (Score:3, Funny)

by glittalogik ( 837604 ) writes: on Monday March 19, 2007 @07:42PM (#18408155)

Alright, which one of you is Spartacus?

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Re:Firm Leadership (Score:4, Funny)

by Drooling Iguana ( 61479 ) writes: on Monday March 19, 2007 @08:26PM (#18408663)

And then when someone finally does go ahead and pick a colour it's the ugliest brown you've ever seen. Yeesh, what were they thinking?

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Re:Slowness (Score:2, Funny)

by cyberphotographer ( 812633 ) writes: on Tuesday March 20, 2007 @05:17AM (#18411779) Homepage

On a point of pedantry, also you cannot have a meteoric rise. Meteors fall!
Not in Australia

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