On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 11:12:19 -0500, Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> * Manoj Srivastava ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> 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. > The obvious flaw in your argument is that Debian already has an > influx of money. Well, no, it is not, really. /How/ we make the money is significant -- (extreme example: working as a programmer for money is vastly different from robbing banks). I have mentioned elsewhere that donations are different from making money off advertizements. > It's not anything new to us and it's pretty unlikely to stop. Your > arguments about the evils of money are therefore not pertinant to > the disucssion unless you feel that because it's money *for* > something as opposted to an outright donation will somehow make the > money *more* evil and more likely to be abused. Personally, I don't > believe that. Well, I guess this is where we differ. manoj -- One nice thing about egotists: they don't talk about other people. George Carlin Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C