Dear DPL candidates
(As always, answer as little or much as you want)
How do you feel about organisations such as the Open Source Initiative,
Free Software Foundation and the Linux Foundation?
We have two candidates who have mentioned their intent to collaborate
more closely with Ubuntu, but should we also be doing more to
collaborate with these?
In cases where our goals start to diverge from these organisations (or
more accurately, when their goals start to diverge from ours, but bah! I
don't want to lead the question too much), should we be paying
attention? Or even take action?
And pointing the finger to ourselves, how well do you think the Debian
Social contract and DFSG holds up? As a DPL candidate, do you think
there's anything substantially missing?
https://www.debian.org/social_contract
Do you think that there are there ways we could do better at those
promises and be a better Debian?
And another bonus question. How do you feel about the general concept of
free software going forward? Is it something that is growing / embraced
by the world (big corporations, software companies, etc), or is the
trend to nerf it and trend towards models such as open-core and exploit
it as far as possible?
And another because I'm supposed to be driving to work and it's more fun
to type questions than to sit in traffic... how do you feel about how AI
is going? Massive corporations are scraping and processing vast amounts
of work in the commons that gets regurgitated as new and original code.
Where do you stand on this, both ethically and in the context of the
future of projects like Debian?
-Jonathan
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