ASTARO not making sources available

[Thomas Charron]

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 4:36 AM, Markus Hennig <mhennig at astaro.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have to apologize for the complete wrong answer from our support team.
> I corrected this mistake immediately, but unfortunately my email didn't
> make it to this list (see email below).
>
> Of course do we have a written offer to send everybody our open source
> components on CD and we also have a download section for all open source
> components: "http://download.astaro.de/GPL%20Source%20Code/" - not
> really difficult to find...

  Markus, might I suggest that you ensure there is a link to that
page?  Personally, I searched the web, and I searched your web site,
and the only links I found where articles such as this which quite
literally bragged regarding the support of open source.

  Go to your own web site, and do a simple search for 'GPL'.  See what you find.

> Besides all the well know software projects we sponsor or contributing
> code to, we also support conferences, WIKIs, tools like Firebug or
> creative commons projects like VEB FILM Leipzig
> (http://www.vebfilm.net/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/lang,en/
> ).
> So its more or less ridiculous to suspect we are not committed to the
> Open Source community or violating any of their license. But Armijn you
> are right and we will train the support teams for GPL related questions
> again. And David, we don't use Busybox, but feel free to contact the
> FSF. In the early days we sponsored them too (which is now a big-money
> game with fancy logos in categories and sub-categories...).
> So if something is still not explained or open, please don't hesitate to
> send me an email!

  Several people looked for it Markus.  'Not too hard to find' is
something that no one was able to find.  Then there is the
questionable state of the ISO downloads themselves, as the version
which was initially complained about was just put up two days ago.

-- 
-- Thomas