In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/20/99 at 05:22 PM, "Madel, Kurt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>don't quite cut it for the corporate world. But I don't see any reason why >the HP's or IBM's couldn't include Debian as one of the distributions they >support. It would seem you have hit at least part of the problem (solution?) in this comment. Debian maintainers take an app/package and formulate Debian's version, yes? Yet Debian's goal is not to commercialize. But the support from the outside should reasonably be headed towards Linux, not a distribution. Does Debian send letters (official or otherwise) to these companies giving out the specifics of how to create a .deb, and doing that would be beneficial? (And is a free Debian CD packed in with the letter? :) (Oops ... 2 CD's these days) A well thought out, very carefully worded letter may go a long way towards helping Debian. These people aren't our enemies, after all. And choosing Debian hardly means a user won't buy that great app from a commercial vendor. Kenward -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Kenward Vaughan Professor of Chemistry Bakersfield College Bakersfield, CA 661-395-4011 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------
