On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 11:24:27AM +0200, Ivo Wever wrote: > Sam wrote: > >There are 50 elderly/disabled people in the state of Victoria in > >Australia who get their Internet access through a Debian box. All are > >members of the Rural Peninsula Disability Support group - they are > >provided computers and pay $11 Australian a month for three hours > >access per day. This is the kind of charitable project which can > >*never* afford costly server hardware or software - were it not for > >the Debian project, we would not be able to run something like this, [...] > Frankly I am appalled by someone trying to use an emotional argument, > involving elderly disabled people, to support Debian. I guess we > should rethink Debian if it turned out some neo-nazi group used our > software on their servers?
I think this discussion is getting *well* out of hand. (There's nothing wrong with success stories, even if Debian wasn't the only way they could have been achieved ...) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
