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Hi Branden, thank you for your availability. Can you tell us something about you? How are you? What's your work? What do you do in your life and your sparetime? What are your hobbies? Well, let's see. I'm 30 years old, married, have no children, and live inIndianapolis, Indiana. I work for Progeny Linux Systems, the company co-founded by Debian founder Ian Murdock. I don't have much spare time, but for hobbies I enjoy playing the electric guitar, reading (overwhelmingly non-fiction), and playing Dungeons & Dragons, a hobby I had neglected for about 9 years.
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2) Everybody know that you're the actual Debian GNU/Linux mantainer, one of most famous and used secure operating system nowaday. What's its philosophy?
Well, to correct you a little bit, the Debian Project has *many* maintainers, of which I am only one. We have approximately a thousand fully-fledged developers with voting privileges under our Constitution, and dozens more in the "new maintainer queue". On top of that, we see many contributions from our users and from other developers in the Free Software community. Debian GNU/Linux, like all GNU/Linux distributions, is the product of a massive cooperative effort.
In my view, the essential mission of the Debian Project is to produce the best Free Software operating system that we can. We not only want to produce a high-quality system; we also consider it necessary to preserve, for ourselves and for our users alike, the freedoms that enabled us to achieve that quality in the first place, and which will permit us to improve the system even further.
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