May I step in? I'm pretty new to this list. Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No. No. No. Let me put that foul canard to rest. I do *NOT*, > repeat *NOT* write software for darned users. I write software > because it pleases my muse, and becuase I feel like contributing to > the free software community. This has come up before (in the debate > that preceded Bruce's leaving the project). I for one write software for "darned users" and has been doing it for the last 13 years. That's simply how I make my living. If I were to contribute to Debian, though (which is unlikely to happen at this time since there's no time left to do so), I would still write for users *and* for my own pleasure. If I can't make money from it but still do it, it must be because I think it's fun, no? Otherwise I'd rather go fishing. > Precisely. And Debian is not trying tobe the OS for > everyone. We are trying for a certain niche. Debian may wel be the > distribution people graduate to, after red hat. I've worked with most commercial Unix and Unix-like systems out there and also worked as a DG/UX developer at Data General. I've had all kinds of problems with Red Hat. IMHO, Debian is the distribution that looks the most like commercial Unix systems as I know them. > What's wrong with that? Already, wordperfect is not available > for Debian as a debian package. Oracle is unlikely to create a Debian > package. Suse has servers that are not available as .debs either; nor > are commercial X servers, or motif, or .... Debian is the most mature Linux distribution I've used and the one we trust for the servers where I work. Given that, I'd really like to be able to use Oracle or Informix or Jasmine or whatever, even though it's not free. Maybe I'm wrong or too phragmatic, but I just don't see much of a problem with using free and non-free code in the same system. If Informix was to create a Debian package of their database, would they be prohibited from doing so? /Robert -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
