Re: Debian and Eaton partnership
Le mardi 24 mars 2009 à 00:06 +0000, Steve McIntyre a écrit :
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 03:21:44PM +0100, Arnaud Quette wrote:
> >Dear fellows,
>
> Hi Arnaud,
Hi Steve and all,
> >At the time of my previous employer (MGE UPS SYSTEMS), we were partners
> >(as per http://www.debian.org/partners/)
> >
> >During the last couple of years, the situation has seen major changes.
> >To sum up, the people that were backing Debian, NUT and FLOSS in general
> >at MGE have gone to Eaton (through the selling of MGE Office Protection
> >Systems).
> >
> >Now that the situation is stable enough, I'm back to update this
> >partnership:
> >1) the MGE UPS SYSTEMS mention in the partner must be removed. there is
> >nobody supporting FLOSS there anymore. And since they have merged with
> >APC, there are chances that they one day come to us with a cease and
> >desist request for wrongly using the MGE UPS logo!
> >
> >2) this has to be replaced by Eaton (I can provide the text content and
> >logo later on).
>
> OK, sounds reasonable. Can somebody on the -www team make those
> changes with Arnaud's help please?
thanks, I'll check with Matt
> >Obviously, the same principles as before still applies: if UPSs/PDUs are
> >needed for our (Debian) infra, ping me. And advert it wherever needed.
> >I'm still working on NUT and related packages in Debian (more than ever)
> >and so on...
>
> Ooh, cool. I may have a bug for you then. :-)
please submit it so ;-)
> And I'd guess the DSA
> folks would like to get in touch about more protection for our
> machines. I'm adding a cc: to them too.
don't hesitate to contact me to discuss these points guys.
> >Finally, we win here a bigger supporter: MGE was ~ 3 000 peoples, while
> >Eaton is more than 70 000 peoples!
>
> Yay! :-)
seconded ^_^
Arnaud
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Linux/Unix Expert R&D - Eaton - http://www.eaton.com/mgeops
Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - http://www.networkupstools.org/
Debian Developer - http://people.debian.org/~aquette/
Free Software Developer - http://arnaud.quette.free.fr/
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