On Monday, 08.05.2006 at 03:27 -0500, Miller, Marc wrote: > The Debian way is to promote the availability of source code, but is > that more important than worldwide adoption in general? The focus > should be on capturing the audience first, and converting commercial > ISVs to the open source model after you have a captive audience. Am I > wrong? Is one of Debian's (formal) aims "worldwide adoption"? I don't think it is... Should it be? That's less clear, but again I think not. If, by making a superior 'free' (in both senses) operating system *leads* to wider adoption, then that's a helpful side-effect, rather than a goal, in my opinion. Dave. -- Dave Ewart davee@ceu.ox.ac.uk Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology Unit Cancer Research UK / Oxford University PGP: CC70 1883 BD92 E665 B840 118B 6E94 2CFD 694D E370 Get key from http://www.ceu.ox.ac.uk/~davee/davee-ceu-ox-ac-uk.asc N 51.7518, W 1.2016
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