On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
You can't predict the future - neither for $COMMERCIAL_DISTRIBUTION (God knows what will be in 1 or 2 years with e.g. SuSE) nor for $FREE_DISTRIBUTION (yes there were several which are pretty out-of-business right now).
One way to look at the difference is that a free distribution will fail only if it can't grow big enough, whereas a commercial distribution may also "fail" if it succeeds too well.