On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 02:02:08PM -0500, Joe Drew wrote: > On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 13:39, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Form submission goes to: > > Submit to http://net2.com/_vti_bin/shtml.dll/debconf2/index.html > > > > If I get this right, then registration for the Debian Conference, > > to a conference run by Free Software bigots, goes through heavily > > non-free and proprietary software that we are not even allowed to > > place in our non-free section outside of our distribution. > > I saw this too, and was a bit unnerved, but might I direct you to the > first thing I said: "Thanks go to Lindows.com for hosting the web page > and all their gracious help." Lindows.com have spent real money on > Debconf already, in bandwidth and server costs, and also in the engineer > costs for the back-and-forth that went on getting that page to have the > information I needed. For all the offers of support I got, Lindows.com > is the only one who actually followed through. > > I don't *like* the registration page being hosted on IIS. But I prefer a > registration page to no registration page at all. Is it that difficult to make a registration page with free software? Also, the form itself isn't free: (C) 2002 Lindows.com, Inc. All Rights Reserved. > Let me re-iterate this for people who might not have gotten the message: > > LINDOWS.COM HAS SPENT REAL MONEY ON DEBCONF 2 AND DESERVES SUPPORT, NOT > SCORN. You don't have to shout. So if microsoft starts spending real money on debconf 3, we all have to start supporting them? Sorry, I think this is ridiculous. Does debconf really need money from a proprietary software company? Why does Debian promote of non-free software (indirectly)? I thought Debian was about free software. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: jdekkers@jabber.org Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: jeroen@openprojects
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