*Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I can't speak for others, but *I* do it cause it pleases my > muse. Getting Debian out to the great unwashed masses rouses little > but mild curiosity in me, and certainly not eough to warrant the > amount of effort I put into my packages.
In general, it seems that making Debian useful to the masses and making it useful to developers are not antithetical goals. There is a lot that can be done to make it better for both groups. I am worried about a minimum amount of interest in order to keep Debian (or something like it ) going. But it doesn't look like interest will wane in the near future. RH's rhetoric is that growth of Debian and Caldera helps RH. And I think they believe this rhetoric to a certain extent. If the time came when a significant number of people were asking companies to support their Debian boxes, RH would not hesitate to offer that support. Everything I have read makes me believe that VA and SGI and Compaq and whoever will have no problem responding to a demand to install and support Debian. If Debian developers want more commercial success, they can work for it. If enough (like Manoj) don't care, then we won't get commercial support and recognition. It's probably OK either way. They can't drive us out of business. -- John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre