On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 04:55:29PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Shawn writes:
> > I am all for a for-profit business forming as a value-added seller > > of Debian products. Such a business could focus on > > pre-installations, packaging and marketing, and user support. I > > would think a very successful business could be built on such a > > model, and there would be no necessary control flowing either way > > between said business and the Debian organization. The Debian > > community would control the software, such a business (and there > > could be many of them) would control its own marketing, packaging, > > support program, etc. > Exactly! This is just the sort of company I would love to participate in. This is what Prosa (www.prosa.it) is, for the record. I'll be translating the web pages soon, so that non-italian speakers can see what it's all about:-> Alessandro Rubini (who wrote Linux Device Drivers, as well as the Kernel Corner column for the Linux Journal) is one of their employees. Ciao, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org
