Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 1st Feb 2008 20:56 UTC, submitted by irbis
"At a recent Australian Linux conference, Sam Varghese reported that two Debian developers pointed out that the Debian Project needs more corporate support for 'men, money and machines' to advance the operating system. They're right. It does. They also pointed out that many companies, such as HP, IBM, Silicon Graphics and Google, either use Debian Linux internally, or actually incorporate it into products. For example, HP uses Debian 'Etch' 4.0 in its new t5735 thin-client device. Right again. Debian, either directly or through related Linux distributions such as Xandros, is used both by Linux enthusiasts and Fortune 500 companies. Of course, you couldn't prove that by the vast majority of Debian developers who never see a thin dime from their Debian work. Or, I should add, get access to new hardware, travel expenses to Debian developer conferences and so on."
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I am not familiar with Vaughan-Nichols, but maybe he cares because he would like to see Debian improve.
If his points are valid, I don't think they should be overlooked in favor of smearing him instead.
Sure Ubuntu has corporate support, but the worth of a distro is determined in large part by the package manager it uses, and Ubuntu uses debians.
Debian works the way it is, but I think many companies are reluctant to launch mission critical services on Ubuntu server, it is considered a "desktop distro" and I don't think they respect it as a big iron solution.
Many of the people who are familiar with Ubuntu would probably prefer to managing Debian server to Red Hat or Solaris.
I think it would be cool to see some companies get behind Debian and deploy products on it, and likely so does Vaughan-Nichols.