Joe Drew wrote: > The 2nd Annual Debian Conference registration page is now available at > http://lindows.com/debconf2 . Thanks go to Lindows.com for hosting the > web page and all their gracious help.
I'm somewhat puzzled: luonnotar!joey(ttyp2):~> HEAD lindows.com 200 OK Connection: close Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 18:32:19 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.20 (Unix) PHP/4.0.6 mod_ssl/2.8.4 OpenSSL/0.9.6b Content-Type: text/html Client-Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 18:32:59 GMT Client-Response-Num: 1 X-Powered-By: PHP/4.0.6 lindows.com runs free software, which is fine. However queso reports a non-free operating system: luonnotar!joey(ttyp2):~> sudo queso lindows.com 130.94.123.205:80 * Reliant Unix from Siemens-Nixdorf However, trying to reach that page, I'm redirected as shown below: luonnotar!joey(ttyp2):~> telnet lindows.com http Trying 130.94.123.205... Connected to 130.94.123.205. Escape character is '^]'. GET http://lindows.com/debconf2/ HTTP/1.0 HTTP/1.1 302 Found Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 18:34:38 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.20 (Unix) PHP/4.0.6 mod_ssl/2.8.4 OpenSSL/0.9.6b Location: http://net2.com/debconf2/ Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 That host, net2.com, doesn't look promising like the first one: luonnotar!joey(ttyp2):~> HEAD http://net2.com/ 200 OK Connection: close Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 19:20:18 GMT Accept-Ranges: bytes ETag: "60e089ffba81c01:6139" Server: Microsoft-IIS/4.0 Content-Length: 405 Content-Location: http://net2.com/Default.htm Content-Type: text/html Last-Modified: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 01:56:11 GMT Client-Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 18:36:03 GMT Client-Response-Num: 1 luonnotar!joey(ttyp2):~> sudo queso net2.com 64.45.57.181:80 * Cisco 11.2(10a), HP/3000 DTC, BayStack Switch Form submission goes to: Submit to http://net2.com/_vti_bin/shtml.dll/debconf2/index.html If I get this right, then registration for the Debian Conference, to a conference run by Free Software bigots, goes through heavily non-free and proprietary software that we are not even allowed to place in our non-free section outside of our distribution. I'd be glad if somebody could prove me wrong Regards, Joey -- The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
