On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 10:13 +0000, Daniel James wrote: [...] > I expect that's the case, but what happens a few years down the line > when there's a fundamental disagreement? When I was a Red Hat 5.0
You can't predict the future - neither for $COMMERCIAL_DISTRIBUTION (God knows what will be in 1 or 2 years with e.g. SuSE) nor for $FREE_DISTRIBUTION (yes there were several which are pretty out-of-business right now). > user last century, I really bought the idea that Red Hat was a > community-oriented company, and at that stage I simply didn't forsee It was at that time. > that the stable distribution would become 'enterprise only' with a > price tag to match. And see we what happens today: They pay several people (initially 6, did't check recently) to work on Fedora. And there is now also http://www.centos.org/ and http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/. Or to pose the question more provoking the other way around: What happens if some company is selling support contracts to a Debian fork/clone/copy/... with a completely different brand (but using more or less the standard .debs with s/Debian/$BRAND/)? Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]