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On Wednesday 19 March 2008 21:11, tom wrote: > RedHat, Suse, Ubuntu could all vanish tomorrow because they rely on > financial model, Debian however only requires the good will of the > community and that is a lot harder to kill. RedHat, Suse and Canonical could fail tomorrow - this would NOT affect the above distributions. There may be some name changes to avoid Trademark laws (ala Firefox/Iceweasel) but there is absoultely no reason why these distributions could not carry on as Debian does. They will all be very hard to kill - their software is free, not tied to the 'parent' company. If they have the user support their distributions wil continue - they just wont have a company that thinks they're going to get money out if free software 'leading/controlling/restricting...' the distribution. They dont need almost religious self belief to continue - just an active user base. Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html