On 06/09/2011 12:58 PM, Adnan Hodzic wrote: > If doesn't make your day I don't know what will. > > Our gold sponsor Mtel has decided to give *every* DebConf11 attendee a > phone number and package along with it! I got too excited so I'm not > sure I got it right but I think this is the package they mentioned: > http://www.mtel.ba/menu/2265 > > Comments? :) Sorry, i don't really understand phone marketing, but i couldn't make head or tails of that page (other than that the models looked very excited to be not-talking to each other). Is it saying that each attendee will get a mobile phone running an all-free software stack? Lest this post be 100% snark, let me be more concrete: a) not every participant in debconf uses a mobile telephone b) mobile telephony at the moment enjoys an extremely tenuous (if not adversarial) relationship with the principles of free software (e.g. at least in the US, i have yet to see a functional, fully-free phone, for reasons i'm ill-equipped to explain). c) if debconf actively encourages the adoption of non-free tools, or actively excludes users who do not adopt non-free tools, it would seem to distance the conference from our mutually-held social contract. I would love to be wrong about (b) above. Regards, --dkg
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