Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > It's the shortage of "based on" that's the problem. > "Assemble a 100 percent Debian core..." > No, Debian does that. What do they mean?
If they take a subset of debian as their core, it would be 100 percent debian. > | The DCC is not a Linux distribution; it is a "base" Debian system composed > As they describe in the rest of the sentence, the DCC is not a "base" Debian > system, it's Debian packages plus member additions. [...] So you're complaining that the sentence is accurate??? > | the DCC Alliance will serve as a single point of contact for software and > | hardware vendors who want to ensure that their products will work with > | Debian. > > No, Debian is that single point of contact. Do they mean "will work with > Debian-based distributions"? It has been an occasional complaint that debian has no single point of contact for vendors. There are developers, delegates, the project leader and others, but I don't know that any of them are recommended as the main contact for vendors. As a result, sometimes different parts say very different things and they seem equally authoritative... Looking over the website, I see the partners program, the cd vendors list, the consultants list and the pre-installed list. Nothing for software and hardware vendors in general? If DCCA wants to offer a new service that makes debian easier to sell, let's encourage them to do it. Preferably working with us, but I could understand them wanting to keep a distance after the kicking they've had on this list (including from people in other businesses that use the debian name confusingly). With any luck, they'll take the kicking as a learning experience about how to gather opinions from debian! -- MJ Ray - personal email, see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Work: http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ irc.oftc.net/slef Jabber/SIP ask -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
