* Manoj Srivastava ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 22:31:57 -0500, Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Funny, but you're happy to contribute to a distribution which is > > packaged up and sold on store shelves by for-profit organizations? > > Which also include some advertising sometimes too I believe? > > I would object to Debian itself selling copies of the CD's, or > requiring payment for access to jigdo files or the archive, or a > pay-per-bug option too.
I wouldn't have any problem w/ Debian selling Debian CDs. Having a
pay-per-bug is an interesting discussion too provided the results of the
bugfix are made available to all under an appropriate license or
whatever.
> Wehn you bring money into the equation, then motivations
> change. The bar for NM would go up, if there was any kind of profit
> sharing ever.
You're the first to mention profit sharing and, indeed, that wouldn't be
possible since there can't be any profit (SPI is a not-for-profit).
> Not a good idea, this.
No, much of what you described wouldn't be a good idea. Thankfully,
that's not what the rest of us are discussing.
Stephen
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