On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 11:50:02 +0200 Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> wrote: > Debian isn't as special as you think, at least not from this perspective.
Everybody earns money and needs money in this development. Organizations like Debian go forward by people with jobs volunteering time and expertise. I knew for instance in Amarillo, Brad Hughes, when he lived there. He was a kid that was working as an electrical contractor's apprentice. He came to one of the few LUG meetings we had in the late 1990,s and demonstrated Black Box. and helped us installed it on our big desktop computers. He wasn't paid to do that but I suspect it helped get him his job at Trolltech. (QT) The man in Toronto who I'm not going to mention because, I write him some with problems who was patient enough to help me with the Nvidia GLX driver back in 2008. when it didn't build its own module and run depmod like it does now. He has a good job, it isn't about money, time maybe. This is why it's important to keep Debian 'free.' This makes it attractive to talented people who still have their hearts in the right place. (You know what they say, If you're not a communist when you're young, there's something wrong with your heart. I think this statement came out of a system that used to educate its promising youth. Some systems are broken so it's hard to have a heart if you're ignorant and admire John Galt but never read his manifesto) This was the reason Debian was created. By maintaining a sensible level of free software without becoming hysterical over the non-free repositories. I'm sure Debian will continue to flourish like all these .orgs they get a lot of donations and legacies over time and if corruption and excessive ideology stays out of the group that steers and runs Debian development, the distribution will flourish which it continues to do, actually, or I wouldn't be using it -- CK
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
