RE: IDEA:Offical Debian Support Team?
In <[🔎] F6225AB9F3C9D2119EF300A0C9DD60C04B584E@EXCHHQ01.usinspect.com>, on
04/20/99
at 05:22 PM, "Madel, Kurt" <KMadel@USInspect.com> said:
>don't quite cut it for the corporate world. But I don't see any reason why
>the HP's or IBM's couldn't include Debian as one of the distributions they
>support.
It would seem you have hit at least part of the problem (solution?) in this
comment. Debian maintainers take an app/package and formulate Debian's
version, yes? Yet Debian's goal is not to commercialize. But the support
from the outside should reasonably be headed towards Linux, not a
distribution. Does Debian send letters (official or otherwise) to these
companies giving out the specifics of how to create a .deb, and doing that
would be beneficial? (And is a free Debian CD packed in with the letter?
:) (Oops ... 2 CD's these days)
A well thought out, very carefully worded letter may go a long way towards
helping Debian. These people aren't our enemies, after all. And choosing
Debian hardly means a user won't buy that great app from a commercial
vendor.
Kenward
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