* Andrew Suffield (asuffield@debian.org) wrote: > On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 09:33:22PM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: > > It's a thought anyway. Those involved with SPI have probably had some > > thoughts along these lines before, I imagine. > > You're thinking about founding a corporation. There are plenty of > those already. It is not necessary to hijack Debian's name and trademarks > in order to do this. > > That corporation cannot and will not be the organisation currently > referred to as 'Debian'. Nor could it do what Debian does. The absence > of control is fundamental to our organisational structure. SPI already exists, and already owns Debian's trademarks. Sorry if you don't choose to believe it. I don't believe that there's an absence of control and I find it amusing that you seem to think there is. Regardless, even if there was I don't believe it's fundamental to our organisational structure (the fact that we *have* an organisational structure would imply the control you seem to feel doesn't exist). My feeling is that SPI and Debian should attempt to grow towards being self-sustaining, at least in terms of hardware and hosting and whatnot. I'm not saying the existing hardware/hosting should be dropped though, just that it'd be nice if we could afford to pay for it. Stephen
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