Serious mis-perception of reality going on here.
On Jan 20, 12:34pm, Michael Stutz wrote:
> Finally, a voice of reason. What made me try Debian in the first place was
> its supposed commitment to free software and the free software community,
> and now the talk has turned into something more like marketing the next
> Microsoft product. Complete with brainstorming on how to destroy the
> competition (Red Hat and Slackware). Can't Debian exist with its brothers
> and sisters, or is this a fight to "win"?
This is absolutely nuts. Completely and totally insane. 100% divorced from
reality. People, you are reading a whole lot more into this than you should.
Nobody ever said we're launching the next Microsoft product, or destroying the
competition, or anything like that. What we did say was that we would come
out with a CD, for which we would charge manufacturers $2, so that we could
have something that looked like a product so that commercial users would have
a chance of selling it to their own management for use in their own
institutions. Institutions like schools and small businesses. And why are we
doing this? Because users asked for a way to get Debian as something else than
a part of a 6-CD set so that they could show a package with the word Debian
on the cover to their management.
We will continue to cooperate with the other Linux distributions, all of which
already make official CD distributions and sell them. We will continue to work
as we have been working today. This is not some sort of plot.
I am very disappointed with the knee-jerk response from a number of you.
Bruce Perens
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