> ----- Original Message ----- > From: Lyno Sullivan > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 1999 2:05 PM > Subject: LLS: Debian/Redhat Alliance > > > As soon as I get a chance I am going to write an article recommending that > Redhat and Debian form an alliance. Redhat becomes the distributor to 1) > commercial operations and 2) people who are only interested in being free > software consumers. > > People interested in becoming a volunteer producer, in the free software > community, will more likely use the Debian distribution. Debian will become > the nexus of the volunteer based, development community. > > One missing ingredient is a commercial operation that will be the Redhat > equivalent distributor of the Debian distribution. Another missing > ingredient is the site that will provide the Volunteer Registry, the Project > Registry and the Volunteer/Projec t Match facility. This distributor (with Registries) will become the gentle onramp for wannabe free software volunteers. There is another ingredient but I cannot discuss it at this time. > > Anyone wanting to volunteer time, should join the Debian community. Free > software, documentation, databases, images, poetry, literature, etc. will be > developed and tested within the Debian community. Software will flow from > Debian to Redhat, for com mercial packaging and distribution. The distributions must become aligned towards this goal for it to work smoothly. > > That's the picture I intend to promote. >
Please don't do this.
