Re: Debian goes big business? [was: Re: Suggestion for RedHat (was: RH vs Debian)]
> > My point is that this company would one day tries ot improve it's
> > revenues and influence the Debian distribution to fits its needs. Look
> > at the recent discussions about whether to ship Slink as i386 only, or
> > to wait until m68k and others are ready. If Debian had been
> > commercially distributed by a company, the choice wouldn't be taken on
> > a 'How can this help the Debian dists and end-users' basis, but on a
> > 'How can we get the most bucks' basis.
> >
> You're thinking in traditional terms. Someone decides these issues
now,
> right? Those exact same people would be in charge of this corporation.
> They would not be interested in the bottom line, but in what's best
for
> Debian. The word "corporation" scares a lot of people because of what
it's
> come to represent. But how a corporation is run is decided internally.
> Just because there aren't any democratic corporations doesn't mean we
> can't start one.
I starting to think this whole mess started on a word understanding
problem. I wouldn't name such an organization a 'corporation', =P
> This new democratic Debian corporation could sell shrink-wrapped
Debian
> CDs right next to Red Hat CDs, hopefully cheaper. Combined with
Debian's
> advantages over Red Hat and word-of-mouth, Debian could possibly
eclipse
> Red Hat. Even if it doesn't become the best-selling distro, it could
still
> sell enough to give the developer's jobs. I'm not sure if this would
be
> considered a for-profit corporation or not. No one's really raking in
any
> profit, most of the money is going back into Debian and paying for the
> packaging and such, but some people are getting paid, so I'm not sure.
> I can see only two changes in Debian due to this corporation.
Development
> would (presumably) go faster because the developers are getting paid,
and
> Debian would become more well-known.
> I also liked the idea that someone suggested earlier, that people
could
> pay dues into this corporation and get a vote. A democratic
corporation
> indeed.
> This may sound radical, but we'll never know if it will work unless we
> try, will we?
Nope. But it does indeed sounds real good. How can we do so?
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