* Martin Schulze (joey@infodrom.org) wrote: > Stephen Frost wrote: > > > I startet to use Debian, because it was not commercial, it was entire > > > free, and I'm afraid, this will be the first step in the wrong > > > direction. It will lower our principles, and it will become precedent > > > case for our future doing. > > > > This gloom-and-doom prediction is really getting old. No, it wouldn't > > become a precedent, no, it wouldn't lower our principles, no, it's not a > > step towards making Debian no longer free. It's a couple ads on our web > > page to bring in a (probably small) revenue stream. There are a number > > of other open source and free software websites which do this, it's not > > anything new and it certainly doesn't make you look like a commercial > > website, if anything it makes you look like *less* commercial. > > I'm interested in the rationales basing your assertions. Everyday observation of other projects which have done this. Funny, do you have examples of where the gloom-and-doom scenario has happened to an open source project? Stephen
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