On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 12:49:11AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Most businesses really don't know what to make of free software. > Therefore they try to make it fit into their traditional model of > commercially purchased non-free software. The concept of buying > software fits the traditional purchase model. Red Hat has made a > business model of selling free software. It seems to be working for > them. Most businesses (non-technical management) equate GNU/Linux > with Red Hat. (At least in the US. In Europe it would probably be > SuSE.) Therefore you *will* spend time justifying your Debian > decision to other people since it is not Red Hat even though Debian is > a better technical choice. So, give 'em what they want... Set up a website from which they can order "Dead Cat Linux" (US) or "Floozy Linux" (Europe) which is a $60 box containing free Debian CDs with Dead Cat / Floozy labels. The tech support page on the site has a support email address which redirects to your work email address, and has a search engine to search the archives of debian-user. Then just pass on the URL to your boss... -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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