On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 05:46, David B Harris wrote: > On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 13:12:52 -0500 > Andres Salomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have discussed this sub-project extensively at Voxel, and we are > > willing to commit to seeing this idea through - in a manner that allows > > the Debian community to benefit from resources that we put into it. We > > are willing to provide developmental resources (Voxel is more than > > willing to pay me to head up this sub-project), hardware, legal > > resources, bandwidth, and hosting, with development happening under the > > Debian moniker. We are also researching the possibility of 24/7 > > commercial support for enterprise clients, as that is a large part of > > what companies want (both for technical support, as well as someone to > > blame when something goes wrong). > > Up until this portion of the email, I was thinking, "oh yeah, this > sounds good, and get a big company involved too - like HP or IBM." > > Any thoughts on that? Anybody from HP or IBM here want to weigh in?
My primary thought wrt making money from Free Software - make as much as we possibly can - at least that's my goal, so that I can provide for myself and my family, and (in the future) work on more Free Software projects. > P.S.: I'm willing to put work into the debix/FAI-type stuff. Heh-heh! Good to hear. regards zenaan -- Debian Enterprise: A Custom Debian Distribution: http://debian-enterprise.org/ * Homepage: http://soulsound.net/ * PGP Key: http://soulsound.net/zen.asc * Please respect the confidentiality of this email as sensibly warranted.
