[Klug-general] Debian question

[George]

MacGyveR wrote:
> On Thursday 22 May 2008, Andy Smith wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 08:18:10AM -0400, Karl Lattimer wrote:
>>> basically, debian will have to change their name, and commercialise
>>> drastically in order to save the project.
>> What do you see as the consequences within one year if they do not?
>>
>> Also, what exactly you mean by "commercialise"?  It may not even be
>> possible within the constraints of the social contract.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Andy
> 
> nah, everything will be fine. a bit like caldera linux
> 
> another question, would ubuntu still exist if debian went down?
> 
God yeah, I can't see anything stopping the behemoth that Ubuntu has 
come...  A better question would be whether Debian would have such an 
important place in the linux market if Ubuntu based itself on something 
else or created it's own base because I could see lots of debian based 
distros like mepis and knoppix changing over to be "ubuntu based" instead