On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 10:55:47PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 03:12:52PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > - Switching networks without some significant advantage stinks of > > politics too much for me. > > - It increases the chances we'll have to do it again, and we lose the > > stability that has made the network useful. > > The significant advantage is that we stop endorsing a network that collects > spurious donations from our users, the people who we are supposed to help, > not help waste their money. > > I think the risk to our reputation with our users over financing policies > outweighs the risk of moving them to another network.
I don't agree; it is quite clear that the Freenode advertisements are not Debian-related. > > OFTC is too much of a wild card, which I think is clear to any detached > > observer from reading the traffic in this thread. > > A wild card, as opposed to OPN, which has started an annoying and wrong > fundraising campaign, is trying to found a new charity despite the fact > lilo is an SPI advisor, and, of course, has just changed its name? :) A wild _technical_ card. I refuse to support a move that we don't have technical confidence in; despite the splits, OpenProjects has not been a disappointment on that side. It also is even less likely to vanish. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer