Re: IMPORTANT: RSA Data Security Challenge participants please read
Karl Ferguson wrote:
>
> At 07:03 PM 25/02/97 PST, Bruce Perens wrote:
> >It was OK for us to participate as "debian@debian.org" in the RSA Data
> >Security Challenge as long as we didn't have any chance of beating
> >the "Linux" group. It looks as if we do have a chance. It would be real
> >embarassing to beat them. So please, if you are participating, change your
> >reporting address to "linux@linuxnet.org" NOW. I have asked the
> >statistics-keepers to add the figure for debian@debian.org to that for
> >linux@linuxnet.org .
>
> Why is it such a bad thing to beat the Linux group? The whole idea is to
> increase the awareness of Debian Linux - when people see we're in the
> number 2 slot or even number 1, we'll have good publicity.
>
> I cannot see anything wrong with running under Debian - from a business
> point of view, if people don't hear of us and our popularity then we won't
> be open to such things and donations of powerful workstations and ports
> etc. This is a *bad* idea IMO.
Yeah. If the folks at gzero.net will add the numbers from
debian@debian.org
to linux@linuxnet.org then why would we want to change?! I think that is
all the more reason *not* to change because we can help the greater
cause
while at the same time getting airplay for Debian?
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Jens B. Jorgensen
jjorgens@bdsinc.com
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