Hello, well, the thing is: Do we really want to go to more market share?
Let's imagine, Debian becomes market relevant, what will happen? Sure, more developers get paid, what is very nice. But not all developers will. Many good developers will not be paid and when the market will rule things, then many good developers will be pushed away or demoralied. Because it will become common, that people will no more cherish theire work. The development of a few people will be cherished, those, who create programs, the market wants. I am using linux since more than 30 years and it is impressive, what people can do, when they can do, what they want and what they like. And look at the quality, look, what has been created since the beginning. This was only possible, because no market forced people, to do things the market wants, not what the developers want. I think, we all can be happy, that we are not dependent from any market, the developers, because theire freedom and theire contentement is not been deminished, and the users, who get very good and high qulitative software to work with. And if you really think, the more you spend, the better the software, you can of course buy software only from the market. Or, you can donate linux developers and/or distributors of your money. Personally(!) I think, the second way is better, because I can speak directly to developers, could (if I would be capable of) fix things myself together with the developers and maybe can even ask him, to implenent some functions especially for me. All things, a market driven software will never offer. So, I think, we can be happy, that linux (and debian) is not market relevant. It will lose its freedom, its high quality and the joy of many people. Sorry, if I did not always find the right expression, I am not native English. Best regards Hans
