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Winning the Linux Wars (MCP)Winning the Linux Wars (MCP)Posted Jan 9, 2006 23:58 UTC (Mon) by zblaxell (subscriber, #26385)In reply to: Winning the Linux Wars (MCP) by carcassonne Parent article: Winning the Linux Wars (MCP)
The usual cue for this boundary is that the unsupported product came on different physical media and had to be installed by the user after the rest of the machine was delivered.
This doesn't work as well for fully integrated distributions like Debian, Gentoo, their imitators and relatives, unless there's an easy way for third parties to label the applications they provide support for such that the installer can present them distinctly. The distributors don't really support any of the packages at all (at least not in a contractual-obligations sense), and third parties who you could buy support from are usually separate entities from the distributor.
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