On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 10:44:57PM -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote: > > Please tell me I am wrong! :) >
Not that this is any real consolation to you, but pessimistically speaking, everyone takes the same risk when depending on any piece of technology. Unless you are the maintainer of that technology (and with free software at least that is a possibility) you are depending on the continued existence and prosperity of some other entity. What happened (or is happening) to shops which "standardized" OS/2? So, you are at least not any worse off than anyone else, in truth you (all free software users, actually) are much better off because it is far more likely for a company to go under (even MS or RedHat) than it is for a hundreds of loosely affiliated developers to all loose interest in Debian at the same time. Observe that GNU and the FSF has essentially been in existence for much longer than most software companies. If your concern is strong enough, hire or train developers and administrators, contribute to the system to help ensure its perseverance and *make* yourself right! My 2 cents, ksb
