Re: Open source

2019-01-20 Thread Carmella Bonomolo
Thank you On Sun, Jan 20, 2019, 19:55 Paul Wise On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 9:39 AM Carmella Bonomolo wrote: > > > Do I apply for use of your product? > > You do not need permission to use Debian nor do you need to pay money > to use Debian. More info about this is available on our website: > > https

Re: Open source

2019-01-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 9:39 AM Carmella Bonomolo wrote: > Do I apply for use of your product? You do not need permission to use Debian nor do you need to pay money to use Debian. More info about this is available on our website: https://www.debian.org/intro/about https://www.debian.org/intro/fr

Re: Open Source Press / No Starch Press as Debian Partner

2009-09-18 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Matt Kraai [2009.09.18.1530 +0200]: > I'd suggest contacting partn...@debian.org with your concerns. If > that isn't satisfactory, I'd fall back to the DPL. The web team > isn't (IMO) the right group to be making these kinds of decisions. Thanks for the pointer. I actually started w

Re: Open Source Press / No Starch Press as Debian Partner

2009-09-18 Thread Matt Kraai
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 08:35:48AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Matt Kraai [2009.09.18.0624 +0200]: > > I appreciate their contributions to the project, but according to > > http://www.debian.org/partners/partners (that's a weird URL), > > "Donations to the Debian project do not qua

Re: Open Source Press / No Starch Press as Debian Partner

2009-09-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Matt Kraai [2009.09.18.0624 +0200]: > I appreciate their contributions to the project, but according to > http://www.debian.org/partners/partners (that's a weird URL), > "Donations to the Debian project do not qualify an organization > for Partner status." Please see that page for mor

Re: Open Source Press / No Starch Press as Debian Partner

2009-09-17 Thread Matt Kraai
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 08:46:01PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > I am negotiating with my publisher No Starch Press over the next > edition of my book, and they pointed out to me that even though > we've been giving $1/1€ for each sold book (that would mean about > 20k!) to Debian, neither No Sta

Re: Open Source Press / No Starch Press as Debian Partner

2009-09-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Simon Paillard [2009.09.17.2059 +0200]: > I must confess I'm not convinced. > > Indeed, many CD vendors do the same (some money to SPI for each sale) : > http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/ > Do you think we should list each CD vendor on partners as well ? > I don't. Do we have any nu

Re: Open Source Press / No Starch Press as Debian Partner

2009-09-17 Thread Simon Paillard
Hello Martin, On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 08:46:01PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > I am negotiating with my publisher No Starch Press over the next > edition of my book, and they pointed out to me that even though > we've been giving $1/1€ for each sold book (that would mean about > 20k!) to Debian,

Re: "Open Source" is not the same as "Free Software"

2001-07-31 Thread Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona
Ellaborating a bit. My impression is that "free software" (at least as it is understood by Debian, see DFSG) and "open source software" (see the Open Source Definition) are essentgially the same. Then you have the free software movement and the open source software movement. They are rather diff

Re: "Open Source" is not the same as "Free Software"

2001-07-26 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 02:30:31PM +0100, Jaime E . Villate wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 02:41:30PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > > statements from Ean Schuessler: > > > > So, basically, if you want to change the official Debian stance on the > > issue, and therefore the web page, you need to ta

Re: "Open Source" is not the same as "Free Software"

2001-07-26 Thread Jaime E . Villate
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 02:41:30PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > In http://www.spi-inc.org/corporate/minutes/20010516 there are the following > statements from Ean Schuessler: > > There are two ways we can go with this Open Source thing. We can turn > the domains over to OSI, which I bel

Re: "Open Source" is not the same as "Free Software"

2001-07-26 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:13:02PM +0100, Jaime E . Villate wrote: > At the beginning of intro/free.wml it says: > P>Note: In February 1998 a group moved to replace the term > "Free Software" with "Open Source Software". As will become clear in the > discussion below, they both refer to essentially

Re: "open source web design" pages

2000-11-30 Thread Martin Schulze
Josip Rodin wrote: > Hi people, > > I've been browsing the web a bit, searching for stuff to help improve design > of Debian pages, and noticed http://www.oswd.org/. There's some cool stuff > there, although undoubtedly there's crap, too. Anyway, take a look, > contemplate, help :) You could subm