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Re: Need Support on Debian10 Kernel Upgrade

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On Sat 18 Dec 2021 at 12:36:49 (+0100), Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Jo, 16 dec 21, 09:53:33, David Wright wrote:
> > 
> > Anyone think it ironic that a multinational IT company with a
> > market capitalisation of $50 billion as of September 2021 comes
> > here for help on upgrading the kernel on an old Debian system?
> 
> Many questions on this list originate from businesses using Debian 
> internally.
> 
> Are you suggesting this shouldn't be allowed and/or that support should 
> only be provided for businesses below a certain size?

No, neither was suggested by me, but I'm guessing by this reply
that you don't see any irony.

> (ignoring for a moment that this would be impossible to implement with 
> open posting / subscribing / list archives)
> 
> Free(dom) Software was never meant to exclude comercial use or 
> developers earning a living (or a fortune) from it.
> 
> In fact a non-commercial clause in the license would make a software 
> non-free according to Debian's DFSG and other similar Free Software 
> definitions.
> 
> As far as I can tell the Debian Project is actually quite proud of Pixar 
> having used Debian internally, so much so that all the code names are 
> still inspired by Toy Story characters.

Hmm. The first release in June 1996 was already named buzz, yet
two months earlier Bruce commented: "Pixar isn't really interested
in Linux¹ yet - I will try to change this in the next year or so -
I don't know if I will get anywhere" and also: "I find myself
wishing that my systems at Pixar ran Debian Linux …".

I think he was proud of the number of companies who /were/ using
Debian, commenting: "other users just as impressive, but I don't
have the space to list them all."

¹ let alone Debian.

Cheers,
David.

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Re: Need Support on Debian10 Kernel Upgrade <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-12-16 16:20 +0100
  Re: Need Support on Debian10 Kernel Upgrade David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-12-16 17:10 +0100
    Re: Need Support on Debian10 Kernel Upgrade Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2021-12-16 18:10 +0100
    Re: Need Support on Debian10 Kernel Upgrade Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-12-18 12:40 +0100
      Re: Need Support on Debian10 Kernel Upgrade Keith Christian <keith1christian@gmail.com> - 2021-12-18 14:50 +0100
      Re: Need Support on Debian10 Kernel Upgrade David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-01-03 04:10 +0100
        Re: Need Support on Debian10 Kernel Upgrade Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2022-01-11 13:10 +0100
  Re: Need Support on Debian10 Kernel Upgrade Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-12-18 11:50 +0100

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