On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 13:39, Martin Schulze wrote: > 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. > > [...] queso reports > a non-free operating system: > > luonnotar!joey(ttyp2):~> sudo queso lindows.com > 130.94.123.205:80 * Reliant Unix from Siemens-Nixdorf
I doubt very much that this is accurate. It's likely a router or some firewall rules that are confusing queso. (Who actually uses "Reliant Unix" on a public host anyays?) > 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 saw this too, and was a bit unnerved, but might I direct you to the first thing I said: "Thanks go to Lindows.com for hosting the web page and all their gracious help." Lindows.com have spent real money on Debconf already, in bandwidth and server costs, and also in the engineer costs for the back-and-forth that went on getting that page to have the information I needed. For all the offers of support I got, Lindows.com is the only one who actually followed through. I don't *like* the registration page being hosted on IIS. But I prefer a registration page to no registration page at all. Let me re-iterate this for people who might not have gotten the message: LINDOWS.COM HAS SPENT REAL MONEY ON DEBCONF 2 AND DESERVES SUPPORT, NOT SCORN. It'd be a very, very bad idea for anybody to start doing or saying anything non-constructive to Lindows.com. They as a company, and every person I've dealt with through Lindows.com, employee or otherwise, have been nothing but corteous and helpful, and have helped make Debconf 2 a possibility. -- Joe Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Please encrypt email sent to me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
