On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 03:03:14AM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 07:30:48PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > > On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 17:54, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > > The thing I want say is: Debian is about free software, IMHO we should > > > not have such a prominent sponser promoting non-free > > > software. Especially as we probably don't need it. > > Jeroen, please calm down. I admit that while the registration page > > could have been a bit more tasteful (i.e. less blatant advertising), it > > would be a very bad idea for us to refuse their sponsorship. Debian has > > been accepting donations from proprietary software companies for a long > > time. We should thank them for their donation, and continue our work. > We should not advertise directly or indirectly non-free software. I > don't say we should refuse their sponsership totally, but if they > provide hosting on non-free software I think that is a valid reason to > refuse it. Same goes for the adverising link, actually the URL of the > debconf 2 registration already advertised lindows. If you're so upset that Debian would accept sponsorship built on non-free software, surely that means you're proficient in developing web scripts and you've already begun work on a replacement for the Lindows IIS site, yes? After all, complaining about the deficiencies of the present solution without stepping up to provide an alternative is not particularly becoming behavior in a Debian developer. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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