According to Thomas Hood, > On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 18:51:57 -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote: > > My point was simple: If you are going to get a derivative of Debian > > or Red Hat or whatever, you will never have the perfect > > compatibility that is often promised but cannot be delivered. You > > will have it only with the original distro. > > Good point. > > Sometimes, though, compatibility with the original distribution > ceases to be important because the original distribution has > been superseded by something else. > > Debian has fundamental organizational problems which lead me to > think that it won't be able to keep up with improvements in > Ubuntu. If that is so then there is a good chance that Ubuntu > will replace Debian as the standard dpkg-based distribution.
Oh, please share. I would think a collaboration of people around the world is more likely to survive than a corporation. After all, a corporation has a payroll to meet. It dies if it doesn't make money. It dies if it's corporate culture causes developers to stagnate. It dies if it seems to be a poor citizen and unpaid developers stop contributing out of anger. It dies if the nation it is chartered in decides to pass a law against it. It dies if principled developers will contribute only to a nonprofit. There are a lot more ways for a commercial distribution to fail than for a distributed fog of an entity to fail. Debian. It's everywhere. And nowhere. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]