Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?
On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote:
> Look at it like this. A person wants Linux and decides to spend about 30
> minutes to choose which one they are going to buy. These are sysadmins,
> not kernel programmers. They take a quick glance, note that Red Hat is
> 5.2, Debian is 2.0 and all the commercial apps ship configured for Red
> Hat, end of decision making process. They see 2.0 Linux and 5.2 linux
> NOT Debian 2.0 and Red Hat 5.2 It is how their minds work.
1) If you only spend 30 minutes picking an os, you deserve what you get.
2) One of Debian's fundamental ideas is free software, not commercial
software. That is what you see the commercial software with red hat.
(This isn't to say we are opposed to commercial software, they are free to
make deb's if they want.)
We are following the same idea in distributions as linux does in the os
field: if our product is good enough, people will use it. To see what
marketing does to a product, look at ms products.
Brandon (who still has a beta vcr in his bedroom)
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