Re: Corel and Debian (was: [linux-biz] Re: GNOME announcement) (fwd)
Wichert> No-one has heard.. yet.
John> I was guessing they chose Debian because they had learned to dislike
John> installing an operating system produced by another company on their
John> machines. Anyway if it is because of the netwinder port, kudos to
John> those of you who did it...
Just back from a Toronto Linux Users Group meeting. Today's topic:
Netwinder. They had "Jason" (no family name) in, a marketing/sales guy from
HCC (the company which bought he netwinder biz from CorelComputing).
While he talked a bunch about Netwinders, Linux and the rest, he didn't say
"Debian" _once_ !! He mentioned 'third-party Linux developers' a few times.
Quite disappointing.
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