* Manoj Srivastava (srivasta@debian.org) wrote: > On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 12:53:46 -0500, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> said: > > * Martin Schulze (joey@infodrom.org) wrote: > >> Honestly, I cannot imagine a reason, why the Debian projects should > >> turn their web pages into commercial web pages by adding Google ads > >> to them. > > > It's not clear to me that having ads would make them 'commercial'. > > This would be something that would have to be run by the appropriate > > people at SPI. I doubt tbm would have brought it up if it would > > cause a problem for the non-profit status of SPI. > > Apart from money, is there any benefit to the free software > community? It's amazing what money can buy? It's possible it could be used to get some things open sourced which aren't already available (which I believe has been done in the past), it could be used for additional obscure hardware, it could be used to help Debian developers meet face-to-face which aids in coordination... Stephen
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