* Alexander Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041213 18:14]: > > more money is always good. > > AFAIK Debian has more money, than we can (usefully) spend (at our > current rate). I think that was pointed out just a feek weeks ago in > the "donate for e-Mail account" discussion. > > I startet to use Debian, because it was not commercial, it was entire > free, and I'm afraid, this will be the first step in the wrong > direction. It will lower our principles, and it will become precedent > case for our future doing.
This gloom-and-doom prediction is really getting old. No, it wouldn't
become a precedent, no, it wouldn't lower our principles, no, it's not a
step towards making Debian no longer free. It's a couple ads on our web
page to bring in a (probably small) revenue stream. There are a number
of other open source and free software websites which do this, it's not
anything new and it certainly doesn't make you look like a commercial
website, if anything it makes you look like *less* commercial.
Stephen
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