> On Sep 28, 2019, at 7:57 PM, Tollef Fog Heen <tfh...@err.no> wrote:
>
> ]] John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
>
>> I don’t know what “m-f-t” stands for in this context, sorry. I’m on
>> mobile at the moment though so my phone might be messing up
>> things. Sorry for that.
>
> Mail-Followup-To. Don't Cc people unless explicitly requested.
>
> [...]
I see. But normally any reasonable mail client is able to cope with that. At
least mutt and Thunderbird do.
But I have removed that CC now.
>> But that’s just your personal opinion on what the focus should be on
>> when supporting a good cause. Someone else could argue about more
>> diversity in software. We have something as the “Debian init
>> diversity” project after all which is also a non-commercial but a
>> community effort.
>
> I don't get your focus on commercial vs non-commercial here, I think
> you're the only person in the thread talking about commercial concerns
> as something that even enters the picture.
It’s very simple. If there wasn’t any commercial interest in Linux on $ARCH, it
would have stopped being a release architecture in Debian long time ago.
Or do you actually know someone who has got a IBM mainframe at home (s390x)?
All architectures in Debian that are release architectures are ones that are
commercially supported.
So if you argue Debian should support release architectures only, you are
implicitly arguing that Debian funds should not be used for any targets that
have no commercial relevance.
>> I think it’s up to every free software developer which cause they
>> would like to support. After all, free software also means we work on
>> the projects we are passionate about and not what’s commercially
>> viable.
>
> Sure; feel free to support the m68k porting effort as much as you want
> and in any reasonable fashion you want. Nobody is going to stop you.
>
> I'm arguing against spending Debian money on toolchain maintenance (for
> a port that's no longer part of Debian proper even!). Not what you or
> GCC upstream or anybody else does with their own time and money.
But my point is that everyone has a different focus on what good cause they
would like to support and I think we agree that commercial viability the only
criteria.
Adrian
