On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 02:51:23AM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 07:30:21PM -0500, Joe Drew wrote: > > On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 18:59, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > > The keyword here is "prominent". > > > > Yes, it is. > > > > > The > > > Debian servers don't run non-free software provided by HP and/OR > > > Sun. The debconf2 registration page is hosted on a server with > > > non-free software and has a link to a website with a non-free product, > > > that's something different then donating hardware. > > > > You are not quite understanding the level of Lindows.com's involvement. > > This is not DebConf 2, sponsored by Lindows.com. This is, pure and > > simple, DebConf 2. The fact that Lindows.com happens to be helping out > > with it is incidental. They were quite adamant that Lindows.com *not* be > > given any special treatment or placement - they are helping out with > > DebConf 2 because it's the right thing to do, because their distribution > > is based on Debian. We are not prominently featuring Lindows.com - they > > just happened to be the hosts for our registration page. That's it, end > > of story. > > Of course it's nice of them that they help, but I still think it's > wrong that the registration page is hosted on a server with non-free > software and with a link to a site trying to sell non-free > products. Certainly because we can make the registration form with > free software without any links to non-free stuff. Please end this thread and go back to telling us all how much the linux kernel sucks. -- Nathan Norman - Micromuse Ltd. mailto:nnorman@micromuse.com Gil-galad was an Elven-king. | The Fellowship Of him the harpers sadly sing: | of the last whose realm was fair and free | the Ring between the Mountains and the Sea. | J.R.R. Tolkien
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