Christian Lavoie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If you want to go the corporate route, get Red Hat. If not, > > stick with Debian. What's the problem?
> As far as I'm concerned, the problem is that I see that the Debian > dist, a great one (if not the greatest) for technical and ethical > reasons, cannot face the publicity and marketing power of commercial > linuxes. If that's the only problem, then why not simply 1. keep the Debian development structure as it is. 2. someone who cares about it forms a company that produces CDs from the official CD immages and markets them, shrink-wrapped and with lots of pomp, circumstance and generally commercial gestures. 3. if the company makes a profit, then congratulations to those who put money into it at the beginning. They might want to contribute some of it to the Debian project (c/o SPI). 4. if the company finds it will be good for marketing to have this or that gadget which is not currently packaged, they'd hire a programmer to package (and possibly develop) it - that programmer would register as a Debian developer and have his usual say in Debian matters. Nothing of this needs any formal decision on behalf of the Debian project itself. The free software nature of Debian has always encouraged this sort of things. All it takes is for some people to get together and raise enough initial capital for producing the first round of CDs and lanuch the initial marketing boost. How would that become easier by turning the entire development structure upside down? -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm
