On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 12:09:40 -0500, Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> * Manoj Srivastava ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 12:53:46 -0500, Stephen Frost >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> > * Martin Schulze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> >> Honestly, I cannot imagine a reason, why the Debian projects >> >> should turn their web pages into commercial web pages by adding >> >> Google ads to them. >> >> > It's not clear to me that having ads would make them >> > 'commercial'. This would be something that would have to be run >> > by the appropriate people at SPI. I doubt tbm would have brought >> > it up if it would cause a problem for the non-profit status of >> > SPI. >> >> Apart from money, is there any benefit to the free software >> community? > It's amazing what money can buy? I am aware of the corrupting lure of the love of money, yes ;-) > It's possible it could be used to get some things open sourced which > aren't already available (which I believe has been done in the > past), it could be used for additional obscure hardware, it could be > used to help Debian developers meet face-to-face which aids in > coordination... Are you aware of concrete deficiencies, or is this a hypothetical for the sake of argument? I have found that specific needs tend to get addressed by our established modus operandi (getting beefier hardware for alioth is one such effort I am currently cognizant of) manoj -- "You are WRONG, you ol' brass-breasted fascist poop!" Bloom County Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C