On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 03:50:43PM +0100, Elliot Dray wrote: > I have a brief question about HP and Debian. I thought until recently that > Debian was HP's preferred Linux distribution, but I read recently that HP > have signed some agreement with RedHat. I also read that long time advocate > of Debian Bruce Perens no longer works for hp.
Bruce did leave hp, yes. But many debian advocates still work for hp. > I know that some HP Unix/Linux guys read this list. so my question is has > Debian been confined to the backwaters of HP Linux development in favour of > Redhat? can we expect the hardware documents locked in the vaults of HP to > be scrubbed and released for open source developers to construct drivers > for HP specific hardware? I don't think this is really the right list to comment on this kind of thing, and I'm certainly not the right person to comment (see http://lists.parisc-linux.org/pipermail/parisc-linux/1999-December/thread.html , articles entitled "Puffin sells out!" ;-) -- "It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?" -- Robert Fisk
