On 7/19/05, Ben Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 12:21 +0200, Nico Golde wrote: > > Heyho, > > why is mentors.debian.net powered by Ubuntu? > > http://mentors.debian.net/ > About this repository > Welcome to the debian-mentors public software repository. > ... > Please note that this service is not run as a part of the > official debian.org web site.* > ... > If you have questions which you do not find answered on these > web pages please write an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Ben > * And if it were, you'd ask debian-project, not debian-devel.
And if so, hopefully they would answer that it reflects a judgment within the discretion of its principal sysadmin(s), and that success for a Debian derivative is not failure for Debian. And hopefully they would be able to point to other services that run on other Debian derivatives, or at least a plan to deploy such. And hopefully this would reflect a generally more positive attitude among DDs towards the leveraging of Debian's mechanisms and code in good faith by profit-seeking entities than one would gather from reading d-d. Call me an unreasoning optimist (or vilify me as a traitor to communitarian ideals), but I think it is not out of the question for the Debian project and community to evolve in that direction. Might contribute to more nuanced views of legal issues, too. Cheers, - Michael (IANADD)