On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 12:12:42AM -0400, Adam McKenna wrote: > On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 10:29:56PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 09:37:13AM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: > > > There will be no non-free removal from Debian archives. > > > > Sorry, Napoleon, but it's not up to you. In this project we put such > > matters to a vote. > > I think it was obvious that he was making a prediction, not giving an order. "There will be no supper for you tonight." Is that a prediction, or an implication that the speaker has sufficient power to volitionally achieve the result stated? Unless M. Marant possesses precognition, I don't think it is "obvious" that he is making a prediction. Mere mortals who have uncertain knowledge of the future would probably phrase such a sentiment similar to the following: "I don't think we're going to end up removing non-free from the Debian archives." My apologies if this isn't obvious to you. -- G. Branden Robinson | When I die I want to go peacefully in Debian GNU/Linux | my sleep like my ol' Grand Dad...not branden@debian.org | screaming in terror like his passengers. http://www.debian.org/~branden/ |
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