Re: Freedom in Debian

[Wojciech Lipinski <wojciech.lipinski@protonmail.com>]

    I shall clarify that there is a typo in my original message. The
    correct sentence should read:
    
    "I hope that the Debian project will not lose its unique
    character with freedom and ethics at its core."
    
    Thank you All for your work that helps many around the world.
    
    Best wishes,
    Wojciech

On 18/5/22 11:01, Wojciech Lipinski wrote:

> Dear
>       Debian Project Team,
>       
>       
>       I hope you are well. I have been using Debian GNU /Linux since
>       early 2000s, and found this project very helpful and inspiring for
>       my own work in a non-IT area. Currently, Debian GNU/Linux 11 is
>       the only operating system on my computers. It has also been
>       adopted by some of my students. I have used the advanced expert
>       installation mode, and my system is relatively highly customized.
>       I found the Debian Installer shipped with version 11.3 very
>       helpful to quickly ad conveniently set up the system.
>       
>       
>       I have noticed that various companies have been promoted on the
>       Debian website in exchange for their donations. It is great that
>       the Debian Project can secure important financial support and
>       promote free software among companies. However, I have also felt
>       that some promotion using very large logos of companies that do
>       not share many of the free software values may go a bit too far,
>       beside directly offering links to log into their web services. To
>       avoid any misunderstanding, I want to say that it is great to
>       engage corporations to support and participate in free software
>       projects as long as the free software and ethical values and their
>       adoption are amplified rather than distorted. I hope that the
>       Debian project will lose its unique character with freedom and
>       ethics at its core. I personally have used some academic services
>       by companies such as Google Scholar. I wish non-corporate
>       platforms for aggregating academic outputs and its metrics could
>       be adopted in the future. I feel ORCID is a step into that
>       direction, but I do not quite follow ORCID's ownership and
>       corporate policies, and they do not aggregate citation metrics
>       (yet).
>       
>       
>       Personally, I am considering applying to join your project to help
>       with Debian activities related to development and scientific
>       computing using Modern Fortran based on my background in
>       engineering sciences.
>       
>       
>       Best wishes,
>       
>       Wojciech Lipiński
>       
>       
>       Canberra, Australia
>       
>       https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5478-6887
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