I have exchanged emails with Matt Zimmerman and Daniel Holbach back in September (there where close to a dozen CCs, so I'm assume it was public), I'll just extract a quick quote from them:
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 10:50:18PM -0300, Martin Albisetti wrote: > Secondly, all references to Debian have been removed from the Ubuntu > page and even on the "About Ubuntu" in the system itself. > Incidentally I watched a video of Mark talking in a past DebConf > highlighting Ubuntu was proud to be based on Debian, and that it > strongly acknowledged it (he mentions specifically that the "About > Ubuntu" mentions it). > Is this still the case? > Are we less proud? > The slow but incremental removal of the mentions to Debian from every > official part of Ubuntu seems like a pretty clear message to me. > This might be accidental, but I'm not sure where to bring it up, so > this seems like the moment/place to do so. On 9/12/07, Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Of course this has not changed, and I don't think it's fair to characterize > the website redesign (in which some other important information has been > moved and needs to be brought to the forefront again) as a message about > Debian. > > The copy on the front page inadvertently omitted a reference to the > philosophy and licensing pages as well, and surely you agree those are > important to the project. > > Gerry/Webmaster: could we get a Debian sentence and link added to > WhatIsUbuntu? I thought that had closed the subject, and it seemed we all agreed that Debian should be more publicly acknowledged, but it seems it slipped past by again... -- Website does not reference Debian visibly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/154274 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
