Re: Debian goes big business? [was: Re: Suggestion for RedHat (

["Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

Paul Seelig wrote:
  >But talk is still cheap.  Would the real future Debian entrepreneur
  >willed to make lots of money please stand up and just do it, please!?

I would be happy to be part of this; I would happy for my existing
(one-man) company to expand to take it on, or to be part of a new
company.

However, it needs capital.

It needs enough money to employ 2 (say) people, pay for a lot of
advertising, press 5,000 or 10,000 CD sets, prepare and print an
accompanying manual, and all this for probably a year before there's 
any significant amount of income.  At a rough guess, that's GBP120,000
($180,000), maybe more.

If anyone wants to join and can put up some capital, let's hear from
you!


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