Debian Not Looking For Commercial Fortune 45
Geoffery writes "Some analysts foresee a less than rosy future for projects such as Debian, claiming free coding is all well and good, but that without a solid financial backing — such as the models adopted by Red Hat and to a greater degree Novell/Suse — Debian will ultimately hit a brick wall.
ZDNet interviews Steve McIntyre, the new man leading the organization on issues of 'community registrations' and future plans."
Non-profit group does not seek profit (Score:5, Insightful)
What the OSS haters forget (Score:3, Insightful)
Really bad summary. Debian is Rocking. (Score:3, Insightful)
The article itself is far more positive than the description. No one but the submitter is questioning Debian's future. The interview asked some pointed questions and was obviously impressed with the answers as the first paragraph or two show.
So the big problem is too much participation? OMG, they are doomed! The bottom line is that Debian is community generated, excellent and growing. The interviewer presented this well, let's not spin it into something it's not.
Interviewer keeps trying to get at something. (Score:2, Insightful)
Suffer? 12 years of working with linux, and Debian has consistently been the only distribution I've seen that doesn't really "suffer" from anything at all. In fact, I'd say that the so-called "archetypal non-business-minded engineers" have time and again produced the creme de la creme of distros and done it right. There's no other distribution other than maybe Slack that I'm more comfortable with putting into production and knowing it will run day in, day out until the plug is finally pulled.
FUD
Besides - what's Shuttleworth going to run his stuff on if Deb goes down the tubes? Fedora? LOL