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Digital sponsorship of Debian Linux on Alpha (fwd)

Dear developers,

Recently I help an employee of DEC, and he said if he could do me a favour...
so I asked 
>There is one thing... I know that DEC has sponsored the development of
>Linux (freeware Unix clone) for Alpha-base PCs by donating one such PC
>to Linus Torvalds, the principal author of Linus. 
>
>Do you know if this was a one-time special gesture, or if there is a
>program for support of outside development?
>I'm involved with Debian Linux (http://www.debian.org/), and there
>has been talk about porting Debian (a full Unix-like enviroment) to 
>Alpha-based PCs. It'd be great if DEC were willing to sponser such
>a development.

And today I received this message:

Forwarded message:
> From hall@zk3.dec.com  Mon May  6 18:22:52 1996
> Message-Id: <9605061610.AA17481@shaman.zk3.dec.com>
> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.5 12/11/95
> To: jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl
> Cc: hall@zk3.dec.com, lamothe@shrctr.enet.dec.com, brash@rdgeng.enet.dec.com,
>         rusling@rdgeng.enet.dec.com, marks@tallis.enet.dec.com,
>         hall@xirtlu.enet.dec.com, riebs@sousa.enet.dec.com,
>         paradis@tallis.enet.dec.com, woods@tallis.enet.dec.com,
>         jestabro@brillig.amt.tay1.dec.com, hunter@tallis.enet.dec.com,
>         berman@mr2mi1.enet.dec.com, gorton@amt.tay1.dec.com
> X-Face: "*Z"_&!oSMy(jPSh>DlEMM-U{L`=hQ>NpqEsh((]+iIT@Kz3L3u_jJ*#MV6jdXP$&Y_~ETv
>  +L$MIOm;1)`R%/NN)d!LH]GexG4v|,]40SYA0mB;~xq7bryT*Q`W<1|h)dIkN#,YHdrM$?4Kn$Whkc
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>  NM_#
> Subject: Digital sponsorship of Debian Linux on Alpha
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> Date: Mon, 06 May 96 12:10:30 -0400
> From: "Jon 'maddog' Hall, USG Senior Leader" <hall@zk3.dec.com>
> X-Mts: smtp
> 
> Ray,
> 
> Dave Lamothe forwarded your mail about having Digital sponsor an Alpha port of
> the Debian release.
> 
> I will tell you that our support of Linux is definitely *not* a "one time
> special gesture", but is an ongoing, continuing support.  For example, we have
> three full-time engineers working on hardware support for the Alpha Linux
> kernel.
> 
> We have been tracking the Debian release for some time, and with the upcoming
> 2.0 kernel from Helsinki, combined with the 1.1 release of Debian, perhaps
> this is the proper time to move for a Debian release on Alpha.
> 
> I would be interested in a proposal from the Debian group regarding what type
> of sponsorship that you would require.  While I can not promise anything
> without seeing the proposal, I will guarantee that Digital will give it careful
> consideration.  Please make the proposal brief (to save both you and us time),
> including the sponsoring needs and what would be delivered.
> 
> Finally, do you have any idea regarding the number of people using the Debian
> Linux release on Intel?
> 
> Warmest regards,
> 
> Jon "maddog" Hall
> 
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I think it is time to hand this to the higher authorities...  David, Ian, 
Bruce, proposals are welcome.

Greetings,
Ray