> I'm sure another company or group of volunteers will take it up and make > a new distro called, I dunno, Ginseng Linux, maybe.
Sure, and then some weed freak from the (misguided) herbs and so-called "natural"/homeopathic medicine group sues. :) About the XP thing: I just thought about it, and maybe it's not really supposed to stand for anything, besides added marketing hype. Lately here in the US, there's been a trend to add random, seemingly meaningless extra letters to a product's name and it's mothing but market-speak. It first became popular with car tires and has spread into other markets, such as over-the-counter or prescription drugs. > America there are more geek-savvy investors). A foundation seems like a > better way to run a Free software project, as the FSF, GNU and Debian As experience with 386bsd/netbsd/freebsd has shown, that model can fractionalize as well and get bogged down with "political" issues - this does seem to be the case with the splits in the BSD camp. I'm not saying at all that Debian will do this, though. > have done (I admit this also has its problems, since such foundations > can become isolated from end-users - I didn't go down the Debian It seems that Debian may be more difficult, and I wouldn't recommend it either to a linux newbie. > long and prospers, but if it doesn't, the software will live on. You > can't keep a good idea down. Certainly it will. But with a good set of standards in place which I think already might exist, it shouldn't matter so much what distribution I install -- in other words, do we need packages for Mandrake, Debian, Red Hat, etc., etc.,?
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