Re: Getting HP to support Debian
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 04:26:09PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 13:08:17 +0000,
> Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote in message
> <[🔎] 20031029130817.GB13981@riva.ucam.org>:
> > On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 01:43:52PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> > > On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 01:04:03 +0000,
> > > Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote in message
> > > <[🔎] 20031029010403.GA6838@riva.ucam.org>:
> > > > HP is also sponsoring Debian in really quite a big way.
> > >
> > > ..debian is also hurd and freebsd, "no conflict there, post-linux".
> >
> > That's a nice catchphrase, but it's not realistic at the moment and
> > won't be for some time.
>
> ..agreed ;-) , however my impression is, it does look like an HP
> ambition.
The HP people involved in Debian are putting about zero effort into the
Hurd and *BSD as far as I can see, and a whole shedload of effort,
man-hours, and money into Linux. I don't know where this conspiracy
theory comes from but I don't think it's from this reality.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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