Re: consultant entries that will be removed unless they "pong"
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 05:53:30PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote:
> Hi,
> * Marc Haber <mh+debian-project@zugschlus.de> [2005-07-15 17:47]:
> > On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 05:26:53PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote:
> > > Yes thats what I thought should be prevented. In my opinion
> > > every website on the consultants page should clearly point
> > > to debian.
> >
> > That's your opinion. I beg to differ. For example, you might have a
> > consultancy company that does, as a policy, not link to any products
> > they sell and support. Why should Debian demand to be listed there?
>
> Yes that is also right but for example in the case of
> federa.de it is not clear why it is listed on the consultant
> page. They don't even say that they provide linux support.
>
> > In my opinion, it is good for Debian to have a consultants list as
> > long as possible - it shows that the distribution is actually being
> > used, and gives good arguments against people who say that Debian is
> > not supported as well as SuSE and RedHat.
>
> Yes but also the quality of the sites should be safe.
Debian has *no* business of telling people what to put on their websites.
If someone doesn't like the fact that a consultant doesn't list Debian on
their website, then they don't have to use that consultant. Suggesting that
we should be filtering out potential consultants based on the content of
their websites is beyond ridiculous.
--Adam
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Adam McKenna <adam@debian.org> <adam@flounder.net>
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