A registered company maintains legal liability. A profit making company also is insured, which makes it feasible to sue if they decide to break a contract, etc.
Sean Henning Makholm wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (shaul) writes: > > > There is the difficulty that Debian is an organization that is based on > > volunteers, where RH is a registered company. So managements tend to > > see RH as much more solid and stable organization then Debian. > > No doubt you are true about that, but I've never completely understood > why managements think that way. > > A registered company can quit business, go broke, or simply decide to > skip the product. > > A volunteer effort of individuals spread out over the internet is > unstoppable as long as anyone, anywhere, thinks the product should > live on. > > -- > Henning Makholm > http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
