Re: Debian companies group

2013-09-06 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 09:07:22AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > > Regarding the secrecy requirement, I can totally see how sketching a > business model involving several business entities on one of the two > examples above could require some secrecy. I prefer to see it happening > on a Debian

Re: Debian companies group

2013-09-06 Thread davidson
On Fri, 6 Sep 2013, Michael Meskes wrote: how do you envision a company with such restrictive policies giving back to the developer and user community? It amazes me how much time we spend discussing he "secret" nature of the list although it was more than once said that this is not necessarily

Re: Debian companies group

2013-09-06 Thread davidson
On Fri, 6 Sep 2013, david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: On Fri, 6 Sep 2013, Michael Meskes wrote: regarding such special needs, i can think of a few projects that could use hosting that provides a degree of confidentiality not provided by the google-way. do you suppose that google could make a

Re: Debian companies group

2013-09-06 Thread Michael Meskes
> how do you envision a company with such restrictive policies giving > back to the developer and user community? It amazes me how much time we spend discussing he "secret" nature of the list although it was more than once said that this is not necessarily meant to stay that way. To answer your q

Re: Debian companies group

2013-09-06 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 09:07:22AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > But there are other ways for business entities to help Debian. I can > think of at least two: Just off the top of my head, two more: - OEM work to have Debian pre-installed on machines available on the market - certification "lo

Re: Debian companies group

2013-09-06 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 05/09/13 at 10:48 +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > I suggest one reason may be a lack of interest by the project and that > consultants have moved to discussing debian in other places than the > project lists, such as social media. > > There could probably be uses for -consultants if project leaders show