[med-svn] r5561 - trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg

[Steffen Möller]

Author: moeller
Date: 2010-12-09 14:24:44 +0000 (Thu, 09 Dec 2010)
New Revision: 5561

Modified:
   trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/paper-text.tex
Log:
Some more.


Modified: trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/paper-text.tex
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--- trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/paper-text.tex	2010-12-09 14:10:52 UTC (rev 5560)
+++ trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/paper-text.tex	2010-12-09 14:24:44 UTC (rev 5561)
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@
 
 \section{Principles of Free Software Distribution}
 
-\subsection{Sharing the work}
+\subsection{Sharing the work -- Debian and cross platform}
 
 The Debian Project is an association of individuals who share the
 intention to create the best possible free operating system.  This
@@ -154,10 +154,21 @@
 of the technically skilled early adopters. Debian helps to bring
 developers and users of applications together.
 
+With an increasing abstraction from the underlying hardware, e.g.
+via Java or various scripting languages, the actual platform becomes
+less of concern. The tools should work on any platform. So, the
+remoteness from the core infrastructure that renders keeping the
+platform-centric user community difficult, also helps finding
+contributors across platforms. The conditions under which those
+collaborations are most feasible are summarised in the Debian
+Policy.
 
+
 \subsubsection{Debian Policy}
 
-To a certain degree all GNU/Linux distributions are similir.
+\marginpar{the LSB is contraproductive in this context, really}
+
+To a certain degree all GNU/Linux distributions are similar.
 The \printurl{www.linuxbase.org/}{Linux Standard Base}
 (LSB)\cite{lsb} is an attempt to develop and promote a set of
 standards aiming to further increase compatibility among Linux distributions,