Comment 32 for bug 154274

I have exchanged emails with Matt Zimmerman and Daniel Holbach back in September (there where close to a dozen CCs, so I'm assume it was public), I'll just extract a quick quote from them:

On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 10:50:18PM -0300, Martin Albisetti wrote:
> Secondly, all references to Debian have been removed from the Ubuntu
> page and even on the "About Ubuntu" in the system itself.
> Incidentally I watched a video of Mark talking in a past DebConf
> highlighting Ubuntu was proud to be based on Debian, and that it
> strongly acknowledged it (he mentions specifically that the "About
> Ubuntu" mentions it).
> Is this still the case?
> Are we less proud?
> The slow but incremental removal of the mentions to Debian from every
> official part of Ubuntu seems like a pretty clear message to me.
> This might be accidental, but I'm not sure where to bring it up, so
> this seems like the moment/place to do so.

On 9/12/07, Matt Zimmerman <email address hidden> wrote:
> Of course this has not changed, and I don't think it's fair to characterize
> the website redesign (in which some other important information has been
> moved and needs to be brought to the forefront again) as a message about
> Debian.
>
> The copy on the front page inadvertently omitted a reference to the
> philosophy and licensing pages as well, and surely you agree those are
> important to the project.
>
> Gerry/Webmaster: could we get a Debian sentence and link added to
> WhatIsUbuntu?

I thought that had closed the subject, and it seemed we all agreed that Debian should be more publicly acknowledged, but it seems it slipped past by again...