Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-11 Thread Carlos Laviola
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 09:55:57PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Carlos Laviola wrote: IIS server because we were given money. I believe principles are more important than money. So spend your time writing the scripts. I will. -- Carlos Laviola

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-11 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 09:15:24PM -0300, Carlos Laviola wrote: No. This is directed at the people who would mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with mesages like Go home proprietary l0s0rz! j00 are l4m3! Debian doesn't need you! Signed, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, it seems to me like you're implying

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-10 Thread Carlos Laviola
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 04:01:46PM -0500, Joe Drew wrote: On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 15:03, Martin Schulze wrote: Joe Drew wrote: Let me re-iterate this for people who might not have gotten the message: LINDOWS.COM HAS SPENT REAL MONEY ON DEBCONF 2 AND DESERVES SUPPORT, NOT SCORN.

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-10 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Carlos Laviola wrote: IIS server because we were given money. I believe principles are more important than money. So spend your time writing the scripts. -- One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them.

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-10 Thread Joe Drew
I promised myself that I wouldn't get into this any more, but it seems that people still aren't understanding... On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 20:15, Carlos Laviola wrote: Well, it seems to me like you're implying there would be [EMAIL PROTECTED] that would be so lame that they would not know the

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-08 Thread Martin Schulze
Joe Drew wrote: On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 15:30, Martin Schulze wrote: However, I still cannot find a request for help with setting up a registration site/form on this list, neither including nor excluding specs, searching from November 2001 until now. You were looking in the wrong spot.

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-08 Thread David N. Welton
Jeroen Dekkers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Of course it's nice of them that they help, but I still think it's wrong that the registration page is hosted on a server with non-free software and with a link to a site trying to sell non-free products. Certainly because we can make the registration

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-08 Thread Joe Drew
On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 02:44, Martin Schulze wrote: Since I had to use grep to find it in the mail, it was well hidden and I don't consider this a proper call for help like done by other people who actively seek for help and receive them. Personally, I don't wonder why only two people

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-08 Thread Richard Braakman
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 06:30:29AM -0400, Joe Drew wrote: Two quotes come to mind: [...] You left out my favourite :) Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself. - A. H. Weller, according to the first google hit. Richard Braakman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 03:03:14AM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 07:30:48PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 17:54, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: The thing I want say is: Debian is about free software, IMHO we should not have such a prominent sponser

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Joe Drew wrote: On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 15:09, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: I don't *like* the registration page being hosted on IIS. But I prefer a registration page to no registration page at all. Is it that difficult to make a registration page with free software? To the best of my

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Colin Walters wrote: It's also probably worth pointing out, as you seem to see yourself as the Dutch RMS, that the Free Software Foundation also accepts donations from proprietary software companies: http://www.gnu.org/thankgnus/2002supporters.html This is a bogus argument. The Debian

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-07 Thread Wilmer van der Gaast
Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]@Sun, 7 Apr 2002 10:54:06 +0200: You may not aware of the discussion we had last year, when VMware offered to donate five (or another amount, not sure anymore) licenses of their vmware product to Debian in order to help us develop boot-floppies. Just wondering,

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-07 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 04:12:16AM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote: On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 03:03:14AM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: We should not advertise directly or indirectly non-free software. Er, we _host_ non-free software on our servers, and distribute it via our mirror network. If

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-07 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: IMHO the non-free section should be removed. IMHO you should write less email and fix more bugs. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg Commander Taco wastes our time with these dumb polls but we keep

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-07 Thread Joe Drew
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 04:54, Martin Schulze wrote: To the best of my knowledge, no. But I didn't have time to learn how and do it, and Lindows.com decided that they wanted to pay one of their engineers to do it. It's quite simple: nobody else did it, so I took Lindows.com up on their

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Wilmer van der Gaast wrote: Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]@Sun, 7 Apr 2002 10:54:06 +0200: You may not aware of the discussion we had last year, when VMware offered to donate five (or another amount, not sure anymore) licenses of their vmware product to Debian in order to help us develop

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-07 Thread Martin Schulze
+- 15 O Apr 06 Martin Schulze 81 Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration 16 O Apr 06 Joe Drew55 +- 17 O Apr 06 Sean 'Shaleh' Per 14 +- 18 O Apr 06 Martin Schulze 26 +- 19 O Apr 06 Joe Drew28 | +- 20 Os Apr 06 Jeroen Dekkers 70

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-07 Thread Joe Drew
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 15:30, Martin Schulze wrote: However, I still cannot find a request for help with setting up a registration site/form on this list, neither including nor excluding specs, searching from November 2001 until now. You were looking in the wrong spot. Check Message-Id: [EMAIL

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-07 Thread Richard Braakman
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 01:53:07PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: IMHO the non-free section should be removed. Well, go for it. In the meantime, stop antagonizing people who do nice things for us. -- Richard Braakman I sense a disturbance in the force As though millions of voices cried out, and

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-07 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 07:30:48PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: It's also probably worth pointing out, as you seem to see yourself as the Dutch RMS, that the Free Software Foundation also accepts donations from proprietary software companies: http://www.gnu.org/thankgnus/2002supporters.html

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Martin Schulze
Joe Drew wrote: The 2nd Annual Debian Conference registration page is now available at http://lindows.com/debconf2 . Thanks go to Lindows.com for hosting the web page and all their gracious help. I'm somewhat puzzled: luonnotar!joey(ttyp2):~ HEAD lindows.com 200 OK Connection: close Date:

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Joe Drew
On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 13:39, Martin Schulze wrote: Joe Drew wrote: The 2nd Annual Debian Conference registration page is now available at http://lindows.com/debconf2 . Thanks go to Lindows.com for hosting the web page and all their gracious help. [...] queso reports a non-free operating

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
It'd be a very, very bad idea for anybody to start doing or saying anything non-constructive to Lindows.com. They as a company, and every person I've dealt with through Lindows.com, employee or otherwise, have been nothing but corteous and helpful, and have helped make Debconf 2 a

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 08:39:21PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: Submit to http://net2.com/_vti_bin/shtml.dll/debconf2/index.html If I get this right, then registration for the Debian Conference, to a conference run by Free Software bigots, goes through heavily non-free and proprietary

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 02:02:08PM -0500, Joe Drew wrote: On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 13:39, Martin Schulze wrote: Form submission goes to: Submit to http://net2.com/_vti_bin/shtml.dll/debconf2/index.html If I get this right, then registration for the Debian Conference, to a conference run

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Martin Schulze
Joe Drew wrote: Let me re-iterate this for people who might not have gotten the message: LINDOWS.COM HAS SPENT REAL MONEY ON DEBCONF 2 AND DESERVES SUPPORT, NOT SCORN. While I don't want to squeze lindows support, I have to interpret this statement like Joey, shut up! Somebody has spent

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Martin Schulze
Josip Rodin wrote: On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 08:39:21PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: Submit to http://net2.com/_vti_bin/shtml.dll/debconf2/index.html If I get this right, then registration for the Debian Conference, to a conference run by Free Software bigots, goes through heavily

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 08:39:21PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: I'm somewhat puzzled: Server: Microsoft-IIS/4.0 Form submission goes to: Submit to http://net2.com/_vti_bin/shtml.dll/debconf2/index.html If I get this right, then registration for the Debian Conference, to a conference run

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Joe Drew
On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 15:03, Martin Schulze wrote: Joe Drew wrote: Let me re-iterate this for people who might not have gotten the message: LINDOWS.COM HAS SPENT REAL MONEY ON DEBCONF 2 AND DESERVES SUPPORT, NOT SCORN. While I don't want to squeze lindows support, I have to interpret

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Joe Drew
On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 15:09, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: I don't *like* the registration page being hosted on IIS. But I prefer a registration page to no registration page at all. Is it that difficult to make a registration page with free software? To the best of my knowledge, no. But I didn't

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 05:25:10PM -0500, Joe Drew wrote: On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 15:09, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: I don't *like* the registration page being hosted on IIS. But I prefer a registration page to no registration page at all. Is it that difficult to make a registration page with

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 12:54:32AM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: Why should we refuse? Lindows.com came to us, not the other way around. Because it's a proprietary software company? Hey, I heard that some of our machines got donated by proprietary software/hardware companies! So lets cut off

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Thom May
* Jeroen Dekkers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : It subverts my principles (and probably also others). The fact that the company itself is probably also going to distribute non-free software also subverts my principles. The thing I want say is: Debian is about free software, IMHO we should

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 12:17:46AM +0100, Thom May wrote: * Jeroen Dekkers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : It subverts my principles (and probably also others). The fact that the company itself is probably also going to distribute non-free software also subverts my principles. The thing

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Joe Drew
On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 18:59, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: The keyword here is prominent. Yes, it is. The Debian servers don't run non-free software provided by HP and/OR Sun. The debconf2 registration page is hosted on a server with non-free software and has a link to a website with a non-free

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Colin Walters
On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 17:54, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: The thing I want say is: Debian is about free software, IMHO we should not have such a prominent sponser promoting non-free software. Especially as we probably don't need it. Jeroen, please calm down. I admit that while the registration page

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 07:30:21PM -0500, Joe Drew wrote: On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 18:59, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: The keyword here is prominent. Yes, it is. The Debian servers don't run non-free software provided by HP and/OR Sun. The debconf2 registration page is hosted on a server with

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 07:30:48PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 17:54, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: The thing I want say is: Debian is about free software, IMHO we should not have such a prominent sponser promoting non-free software. Especially as we probably don't need it.

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Richard Braakman
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 03:03:14AM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: We should not advertise directly or indirectly non-free software. Er, we _host_ non-free software on our servers, and distribute it via our mirror network. If you want to go on a crusade, then there are targets closer to home.

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Colin Walters
[ Please don't CC me, I read this list ] On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 20:03, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: We should not advertise directly or indirectly non-free software. I don't say we should refuse their sponsership totally, but if they provide hosting on non-free software I think that is a valid reason

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Apr 07, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: It subverts my principles (and probably also others). The fact that the company itself is probably also going to distribute non-free software also subverts my principles. The thing I want say is: Debian is about free software, IMHO we should not have such a

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Schulze wrote: If I get this right, then registration for the Debian Conference, to a conference run by Free Software bigots, goes through heavily non-free and proprietary software that we are not even allowed to place in our non-free section outside of our distribution. Received:

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 02:51:23AM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 07:30:21PM -0500, Joe Drew wrote: On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 18:59, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: The keyword here is prominent. Yes, it is. The Debian servers don't run non-free software provided by HP