Hi, I do not really know if this belongs here, but I could not find anywhere else seeming more "appropriate" for this than among Debian users.
I have chosen Debian for my personal use, lately my company has chosen Debian on several servers (including our web server), and we have suddenly become very dependent on all these people out there making Debian so damn good (mostly for free). Then I keep reading and seeing the "commercial" distributions, especially RH rushing forward trying to position themselves in a market where they obviously see the opportunity to make big bucks. And with the big bucks comes all the nastiness of high finance business, and I am afraid one of these will "win" and leave the ones that chose quality and versatile over hype in a jam because all the talented people in the Linux world suddenly see the possiblilty to make money, and a lot of it. We had a hard time finding someone willing to do our Debian server. All of the ones we contaced to get our web server built told us they felt "more confident doing a RH install" or they said: "RH is pretty strong in this ares", and some of them even had some nifty deals for us if we chose RH. How will the Debian community be able to fight in a market like this in the future? I dread a situation where Debian becomes a distribuion based on what RH employees contribute on their spare time. Please tell me I am wrong! :) ----------------------------------- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe ICQ 3945810 Date: 02-Jun-99 Time: 22:44:57 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux ----------------------------------- "Clones are people two"
