sorry feel compelled to dive into the fray, but... <rant> On Tue, 18 May 1999, Mark Mealman wrote:
> On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 03:16:38PM -0700, Craig Brozefsky wrote: > > > > "Debian, so far, has been very popular in academia, hobbyist and > > research circles, but doesn't appear to be a big player in the retail > > and commercial fields." > > Well damn, I work for one of the US's largest insurance brokerage firms > and we use Debian. > > Guess I should run out and pick up Red Hat, before the LPI police come > knocking. I'm guilty too! I guess I should just hand over my production frame-relay routers all over the US and in Sweden, Germany, Malaysia, and Brazil too. Let me just fill out a purchase order for 40 copies of RH at $50 apiece... > Sure would hate to give up Debian's top-notch security, stability, and > ease of maintenance though. Then again, we're commercial and not > educational so we really don't need those qualities in a Linux > distribution. Commercial people never need to worry about things like true "hassle-free" licensing, or being able to build a custom sendmail package in 10 minutes by grabbing the source package and adding their own configuration files (btw, thanks to Richard Nelson for a rock-stable package). And who wants to be able to upgrade with a single command line or without reboots? Oh yea, and who wants to use free software when you follow a single vendor down the yellow brick road until they have you right where they want you?!? </rant> [EMAIL PROTECTED] | You don't get something for nothing, http://www.mancill.com | You can't have freedom for free. | (Peart)
