In your email to me, Greg Vence, you wrote: > Correct me if I'm wrong(like that wouldn't happen here). But the $2
Nah... not *here*.... :) > charge gives us control over the use of the term "Official Debian." > This control is needed. Witness the historical reason for a lack of 1.0 > version. Correct! The word 'Official' has to have some control behind it, and we have to generate some sort of income for the .org . It's *non-profit* folks, not *non-income*. It just means we are not in business to make money/profit.. just to cover our costs. Did anyone catch the Linux segment on MEU this week? RedHat, Caldera, and WGS were on the show. WHY NOT DEBIAN?? Because.... Bruce/someone couldn't pay *out of their own pocket* to appear there... > This control then can give the assuance needed to the management types. > Management doesn't want to dive into the "Bleeding Edge" of Linux and > this would ensure a 'tested' version with the Debian organization's > blessing. Everything else appears as a work in progress. As long as > its also available free on the net. The $2 plus fluff is only the suit. > The full brains & brawn of Debian are still available to the public > without distribution charges. > > I'm not currently on a consulting assignment where this is necessary but > some sites have gone with a commercial distribution and then wondered if > they should have used Linux at all. Obviously, they were even more > skeptical about 'giving Debian a try.' Despite my best efforts, the BNL Linux community is slowly migrating to RH for just this reason. "It's a commercial product" is the reason I get... if they could buy it from CompUSA or Egghead, it would *appear* to *them* to be legitimate! Managements *perception* is the key here... Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps "You cannot paint the 'Mona Lisa' by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters." -- William F. Buckley, Jr. ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]