On 02 Jun 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: > 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! :)
One suggestion, if you're worried, is to make a voluntary donation to Debian. Most of the vendors of Debian disks offer the facility to do this when you buy the disks; a Good Thing IMO. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.1 (Windows-free zone) Book Reviews: www.achc.demon.co.uk/bookreviews/ "The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on..." - Edward Fitzgerald (Rubaiat of Omar Khayyam)
