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This is a typical Debian Situation:
A person writes something about his work and stuff he is proud of in his blog, people complain because they see it as advertising and the person gets removed from Planet Debian.
What is a little strange about is that this person was Ian Murdock himself, blogging about his work at Progeny. Come on… show a little respect and loyality.
Ian Murdoch wasn’t that upset about it, he just called it “So, I was unwittingly at the center of a little controversy at Planet Debian yesterday.”

Why can’t the Debian People be a little more tolerant? Why are Free Software people in general quite intolerant of other technologies, operating systems, software development and business models? Actually, don’t we try to just bring freedom to the people? This is a litte bit like the catholic church trying to bring the true faith to people in the middle ages. The Ubuntu approach, “humanity to others” is better than the general Debian approach. For the Debian People, they should maybe think of something that is really a “social contract” and not something just about “free software rights”.

A common misconception is that people think it rains more often in England than it does in Germany. This is simply not true. I lived in England for about 10 weeks and didn’t own an umbrella. If it rained, it rained at times when I didn’t have to leave my home/office and it usually just rained for a couple of minutes.
I am back now for about 6 weeks and I managed to get soaked wet on my way from/to university twice (a 8 minutes walk) and I had to use an umbrella twice (the other two times there was none around, a problem which usually occurs when you are the last person to leave the house in the morning an the number of umbrellas is smaller than the people living in the same house). If it rains in Germany, it usually rains for hours or whole days. So I believe in regards to rain, Sank Augustin is worse than London.