yay, another attack piece
Posted Feb 1, 2008 18:12 UTC (Fri) by
joey (subscriber, #328)
Parent article:
Why companies don't support Debian (LinuxWatch)
Well, it's a blatant attack peice, full of misinformation. A few things that stuck out at me, by no means a complete list:
- Article claims that most developers never get travel expenses to Debian conferances paid. I think the 300 developers who made it to Edinburgh last summer from locations all over the world would disagree. 300 is probably about half the current number of *active* debian developers. Any DD who can come up with a good talk for debconf is a shoo-in for travel expenses, and they've had enough money to even pay for developers who were too lame to give a talk. (Where does this money come from? Er.. corporate sponsorship.)
- If Debian turns against any developer who accepts a check for working on Debian, why have I lived for the past 9 years (and bought a house) doing just that, while still being apparently respected by Debian, despite having sold out?
- Article points to Debian Weekly News as a sign that debian is disorganised. If we're so disorganised, how did we manage to publish one issue a week (each better researched than this linux-watch attack peice!) for 8 years? (In fact, we're replaced it now with http://wiki.debian.org/DeveloperNews )
- Usual inaccrate stuff about the mozilla logo.
- Chris Fearnley was once a Debian Developer, but he isn't working on it now AFAIK.
- Article claims Debian has trouble finding corporate partnerships. http://www.debian.org/partners/ lists HP, Sun, trustsec,
credativ, skolelinux, Genesi, MGE UPS SYSTEMS, simtec, etc, etc. These are companies who fund Debian developers and/or provide hardware to the project.
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