Re: Debian: abandon ship?
On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 11:24:27AM +0200, Ivo Wever wrote:
> Sam wrote:
> >There are 50 elderly/disabled people in the state of Victoria in
> >Australia who get their Internet access through a Debian box. All are
> >members of the Rural Peninsula Disability Support group - they are
> >provided computers and pay $11 Australian a month for three hours
> >access per day. This is the kind of charitable project which can
> >*never* afford costly server hardware or software - were it not for
> >the Debian project, we would not be able to run something like this,
[...]
> Frankly I am appalled by someone trying to use an emotional argument,
> involving elderly disabled people, to support Debian. I guess we
> should rethink Debian if it turned out some neo-nazi group used our
> software on their servers?
I think this discussion is getting *well* out of hand.
(There's nothing wrong with success stories, even if Debian wasn't the
only way they could have been achieved ...)
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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