> Your thinking of the personal user, which isn't Linux's >strongsuit right now. Corporate customers are looking at the >Calderas and RedHatters of the Linux distributions. Without >commercial support, they won't even bother to *look* at Debian. >Without the attention of the corporate world, Debian won't get >enough advertising, or word of mouth, to become a player in the >end user market (whenever it develops). > > >-- >Ed C.
I don't think that is such a bad thing for debian to remain non-commercial. What happens when RH or caldera becomes 50.0001% owned by a company like Sun, HP or Novell? Do these companies act any different than M$? Would such a redhat CEO consider the ideas of the Linux Developers as important as the marketing strategies of his new parent company? Will RH Linux become secondary to the success of a proprietary version of unix? Maybe. Hopefully Debian won't. Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
