On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Nicolaus Kedegren wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 11:36:48AM -0700, Bruce Sass wrote: > > I think a much better solution would be for Debian to find a > > multi-national commercial partner to take over non-free before it > > gets dumped... maybe HP. > > This is a typical _drone_ argument. There is no such thing as a > multi-national corporation that works for the public good. Trust me, I > work for one of 'em. The best solution for Debian is to completely drop > "non-free" and let the control freaks fight it out amongst themselves. > And just to satisfy my curiosity, why is HP so especially suited to > take on the task of maintaining "non-free"?
Ya, ok, "partner" was a bad choice, "ally" would have been better; I would expect them to act in their own self interest (which should coincide with that of Debian's users). HP just kinda sprung to mind as a Debian friendly entity (DWN piece about Debian being added to their TestDrive program, probably, iirc) with a broad enough operation to support what would probably be a loss leader. <joke> Maybe MS will run non-free to show they really do support competition in the market. </joke> - Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
