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Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $



On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 08:35:35AM -0800, briand@zipcon.net wrote:
> I have the following modest proposal :
> 
> Debian should start charging for high-speed apt-get/dselect/whatever
> downloads from it's sites.  56k is free, anything faster you pay for.
> Then we can pay people to work on the not fun stuff that needs doing.
> 
> And people who download ISO's to sell should be paying a LOT.
> 
> And this is not a troll.  

Are you sure it isn't? You do that and I guarantee you most of the
developers will leave.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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