Re: Getting HP to support Debian
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 16:26:01 +0000,
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote in message
<[🔎] 20031029162600.GA15814@riva.ucam.org>:
> 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.
..all I see over at Groklaw et al, is HP supporting SCO's Tour.
..you say HP support's Debian Linux. Both may well be true, the sheer
size of HP suggest one of these support schemes may be un-autorized
by HP's corporate board. They might wanna know, and, trust needs
a minimum of spine, and we all know long term business needs trust.
..my conspiracy is simple: I say boycott HP until they ditch SCO.
I feel our (Debian's) spine more worth than whatever money they
are peeing down our back's. Further, we have Debian Hurd and
Debian FreeBSD, there is no Red Hat Hurd yet, so our action will
speak loader than RH's suit, _because_ we have the alternatives.
..but then again HP doesn't pay _me_. ;-)
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...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
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