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Re: paying our bills

From: Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>
> bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens) writes:
> 
> > 1. Make I-Connect the official home of Debian, in such a way that we would
> >    state clearly that they are our preferred CD seller. I think this would
> >    be good for I-Connect but bad for the project.
> 
> Why might this be bad?
> 
> > 2. Make an Official Debian CD, sell it, and use the proceeds to pay for
> >    services. This may or may not be good for the project. Not having
> >    an official CD has not encouraged CD vendors to put copies of Debian
> >    on their CDs any more than they have Red Hat, which has an official
> >    CD.
> 
> You write that this may or may not be good for the project, but how is
> it different from #1?  We can just let I-Connect make the "Official"
> Debian CD.

In the case of an "Official" Debian CD, Debian would be getting the revenue
which it would use to pay I-Connect and other companies for services. In the
case of designating I-Connect as our preferred CD reseller, I-Connect would
get the revenue from CD sales directly.

It's pretty clear to me that it would be a bad idea to designate a preferred
CD reseller. I'm going to make that clear to Simon and Mike and if they want
to reduce services or pull out, we will have to deal with it.

	Thanks

	Bruce
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