On Sat 18 Dec 2021 at 12:36:49 (+0100), Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 16 dec 21, 09:53:33, David Wright wrote: > > > > Anyone think it ironic that a multinational IT company with a > > market capitalisation of $50 billion as of September 2021 comes > > here for help on upgrading the kernel on an old Debian system? > > Many questions on this list originate from businesses using Debian > internally. > > Are you suggesting this shouldn't be allowed and/or that support should > only be provided for businesses below a certain size?
No, neither was suggested by me, but I'm guessing by this reply that you don't see any irony. > (ignoring for a moment that this would be impossible to implement with > open posting / subscribing / list archives) > > Free(dom) Software was never meant to exclude comercial use or > developers earning a living (or a fortune) from it. > > In fact a non-commercial clause in the license would make a software > non-free according to Debian's DFSG and other similar Free Software > definitions. > > As far as I can tell the Debian Project is actually quite proud of Pixar > having used Debian internally, so much so that all the code names are > still inspired by Toy Story characters. Hmm. The first release in June 1996 was already named buzz, yet two months earlier Bruce commented: "Pixar isn't really interested in Linux¹ yet - I will try to change this in the next year or so - I don't know if I will get anywhere" and also: "I find myself wishing that my systems at Pixar ran Debian Linux …". I think he was proud of the number of companies who /were/ using Debian, commenting: "other users just as impressive, but I don't have the space to list them all." ¹ let alone Debian. Cheers, David.
