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Re: Why Debian's webpages aren't DFGS-free ?



Anthony Towns wrote:
> The counter-argument is to prevent people ripping off our work, or
> something.  For example, some unscrupulous dot-com could take all the
> Debian stuff, setup www.debian.foo.xy in their country, and confuse
> newbies into thinking that they're the official site. And everyone knows
> that Debian would do *anything* to avoid confusing newbies, so this is
> a completely unacceptable situation.

I also just realzed how completly similar this is to the type of FUD you'll
hear from traditional software companies about the idea of open source
software in general. Wake up, you have a dual standard.


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see shy jo, in New York


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