Bear in mind that Debian is not a commercial operation, and few of the developers are actually employed by Debian. One of the first things the new project leader upon coming to the role did was to audit the assets owned by the project. It was a difficult task, and (from memory) the total came to around $40,000 US.
Debian's job is to get a collection of software that works, and put it up for whoever wants it. If it doesn't suit the users, that's really not their problem.
Many other distros are commercial, and they base themselves on Debian (Ubuntu, Mepis, Linspire, and so on.) Their job is to take Debian as a base, configure it for the less geeky among us, and sell it (or however their business model works.)
Without Debian, none of these distros would exist.
Don't like it? Then don't use it. It ain't making a difference to Debian's bottom line.
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Re:So do it - dammit!
Posted by: cammoblammo on June 12, 2005 06:40 PMDebian's job is to get a collection of software that works, and put it up for whoever wants it. If it doesn't suit the users, that's really not their problem.
Many other distros are commercial, and they base themselves on Debian (Ubuntu, Mepis, Linspire, and so on.) Their job is to take Debian as a base, configure it for the less geeky among us, and sell it (or however their business model works.)
Without Debian, none of these distros would exist.
Don't like it? Then don't use it. It ain't making a difference to Debian's bottom line.
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