Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration
On Apr 07, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> It subverts my principles (and probably also others). The fact that
> the company itself is probably also going to distribute non-free
> software also subverts my principles.
>
> 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.
Not to beat this to death, but a large number of Debian packages
contain code that was developed by people who work for companies that
produce non-free software. Among them:
gs
debconf
alien
kernel-image-*
anything we got from Red Hat (they own Cygnus, which does non-free stuff)
sourceforge
cupsys-*
apache
zope
python*
perl*
xfree86-*
Need I go on?
Yes, it's a shame Lindows.com hosts things on non-free servers. My
general reaction to that is that if they're dumb enough to run IIS and
pay for it, that's on them, not us.
Chris
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