On Saturday 13 November 2004 07:08 pm, ken keanon wrote: > Hi, > > I',m impress. The responses to 'why debian' show that it has won some > strong converts and it is supported by some staunch loyalists. I need > to know more. There was mention about "never for profit", "protected > non-profit". It is compared to US democracy and monasteries in > medieval England. > > My picture of the Debian organisation as gathered from the responses > is as follows. I'm ready to be corrected. Debian GNU/Linux is a > version of Linux developed freely by volunteers. These voluntary > developers are organised as a hierarchical organisation with > leader(s) at the top. > > Questions. > A big project like this will definitely incur expenses. Do volunteers > contribute financially too? If that is the case, in my opinion, > Debian could disappear in two possible ways. 1. The volunteers > decided that there should be some financial reward for their work. > They could accept an offer by a well established enterprise to 'buy' > over their work or they could collectively decide to form a > corporation. 2. Volunteers dwindle to an ineffective few, preferring > to spend their time on work with more reward and recognition. > > What is the geographical spread of the Debian organisation, is it > US-centric? Are the developers mostly US-based? Right now, under the > initiative of Oracle, there are companies in China, Japan and S. > Korea coming together to develop another version of Linux called > Asianux. This may start a new trend of 'regional Linux'. > > I roughly know that the US and non-US version got to do with > encryption. But what is the restriction? People in US or outside US > can download either version, right?
The thing I like about Debian is how open,i,e, the infrastructer is. You can access all aspects of the organization, if you have the the will. I.E., http://www.debian.org/devel/developers.loc Go to the Debian web site and navigate to the area that interests you. Debian is wide open to all. -- Greg C. Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
