[Sysadmin] Re: advert on webcvs

Alexander Neundorf neundorf at kde.org
Wed Feb 25 16:32:33 GMT 2004


On Wednesday 25 February 2004 01:53, Russell Miller wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 February 2004 18:43, Christopher Molnar wrote:
> > THIS IS ON A DONATED MACHINE PAID FOR OUT OF MY OWN POCKET. KDE-ADMINS
> > HAVE NO CONTROL ON THIS MACHINE AND IF LINK HAS TO GO, THE WEBCVS WILL
> > NEED TO AS WELL.
>
> I recall earlier someone putting "credits" in the applications that they
> maintained that were incendiary and politically motivated.  Those credits
> were removed and the person who put them there decided, as a result, to
> remove their apps from kde CVS.

Well, IMO this is a completely different story. Hosting a web site costs 
money. The advertisement is there to help Chris to provide a valuable service 
for KDE. Putting a statement "thanks to the US army" in an application 
doesn't provide any service for KDE and is highly political. 

Bye
Alex

Btw. their shipping manager is quite cool ;-)
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