On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:27:15 -0500, Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Perhaps not, as I said, I thought it'd be an interesting discussion, > not that we should go out and market it as a new Debian thing to do. > I don't mind valid critiques of why something isn't workable, I do > mind knee-jerk reactions of "I'll quit if Debian does that." Is someone quitting? Hay, maybe we are getting close to a release. On the other hand, trivializing objections people have to commercialization of Debian does not advance your cause. I do have objections to Debian starting down this path, and for precisely the same reasons: I think that the influx of money would make it hard to prevent abuse, or the appearance of abuse, and the resulting ill-will would be detrimental to the project. manoj -- A kind of Batman of contemporary letters. Philip Larkin on Anthony Burgess Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C