Re: is this the end of debian?
david writes:
> Well, Bruce is leaving, but Ian is still out there.
And is our leader, and has been for quite some time.
> Who are the Debian officers?
Debian has little in the way of formal organization. We are addressing
that right now: we are discussing a draft constitution proposed by Ian.
> but with many who don't want to market Debian.
While there are many who don't want to market Debian, there are few who
don't want it marketed.
> We could use a couple of marketroids ourselves who push a fairly slickly
> packaged product - frozen at some point.
Debian is free. Anyone who wants to can package it and push it. That
includes you.
> The profits (and I stronly believe that there could be some significant
> funds generated like this) would be plowed back into funding developers.
The only "funding" we need is a few computers and bandwidth to access
them. Donations are quite sufficient for that.
> I think Debian is healthy, but if the young turks drive more leaders off,
> it may not stay that way.
That's a pretty distorted view of the events. Nobody is being driven off.
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John Hasler
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