>>>>> "dman" == dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
dman> When I first saw your subject in my log (before I looked at the dman> mailbox itself) I was expecting a really funny and outrageous story dman> containing a real suggestion buried in it. The subject reminds me of Ouch - that hurt. Sorry I'm not as clever as you thought I might be. Although in my defense, charging for downloads certainly was deemed outrageous by everyone. And it was a real suggestion, but not seems like it was ill-considered. It just seems that Debian shouldn't have to rely on hand-outs for infrastructure like servers and bandwidth - not when Debian is such a valuable service/product. Maybe just proceeding as things currently are is going to work - it has so far. dman> | More packages, more complexity - without bringing in additional dman> | resources will Debian start to falter ? Is there some equitable way dman> | of charging to help with that ? Practically speaking it doesn't look dman> | like there is. dman> The only practical way is to convince people that they really ought to dman> help. You can't require people to give the additional resources, but dman> you can ask people to willingly give them (donations, of one form or dman> another). Yep - I suppose. Time will tell. Still going to use Debian. Still going to file bug reports. Still going to write checks (or use a credit card). Hope it's enough... I have to admit, one thing that makes a lot of sense is that "normal" users should be insulated from this burden - and that makes it hard to do anything via Debian directly. Certainly 3rd parties can pick up a lot of the slack, like "donation" check boxes. Brian
