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Branden Robinson Lays Down the Law at Debian

Posted by timothy on from the testing-the-mic dept.

darthcamaro writes "Newly elected Debian Project Leader Branden Robinson posted his first report as DPL. From the looks of it, Debian is flat broke, with only $40,000 or so in cash on hand. In an interview on internetnews.com, though, Robinson talks about whether Debian should even hold onto any money at all. Holding onto cash is also likely not what those who donate to the Debian Project expect either, according to Robinson. "People who donate us money ... seem to expect us to put the money to work for us in the near-term, not towards establishing an endowment,' he said."

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  1. Re:Million Bucks? by cmstremi · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Way to miss the Office Space reference, dickwad.

  2. Re:What do they need the money for? by turbidostato · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "how is the IT staff supposed to know which BT packets are "good" and which are "bad"?"

    I don't know. But I DO know one thing. What am I uploading/downloading is not AT ANY RATE something IT staff has anything to do with. That is MY data and MY bussiness, not theirs.

    I don't know about the USA, but surely enough that's the way things are in civilized parts of the world like, to name one, Turku.

    Being said that, usage trends of IT fabrics IS IT staff bussiness; One thing they can do, for instance is shape traffic usage so everybody takes a fair portion of the cake (while it is easily just to close down port ranges for IP blocks that's neither "the proper way" nor something within tech staff duties; it is simpy "the lazy cheap way"). How they take advantage of his part of the case is enterily up to them; if they use it for something dubious or illegal, that's bussiness between them and police, certainly not between them and IT staff.