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Re: provocative actions

On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:

> Let's talk about provocative actions.
>
> Putting Debian on a KDE CD was a provocative action. We can't object
> to it according to our own rules, but that does not make it any less
> provocative.

i disagree. we WANT people to use debian as the base for other
distributions.  

sometimes (*) that means that debian will be used as the base for things
that we wouldn't do ourselves.


> Anyone involved should have known it would be an uneasy partnership.

true. but we do encourage people to use debian as a base for other
stuff. you can't blame them for taking us at our word.


> Telling us what to do with our money is a provocative action. It's
> our money, and we are bound to use it to support 100% free software
> projects.

yes.


craig

(*) if you think about it, that's not just a 'sometimes', it's an
'always'. if the derived dist was something that we would/could do
ourselves then we would just do it and there would be no need for anyone
else to do it.



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