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Big Debian Linux Payday For HP (InternetNews)
InternetNews reports
that HP is making money with its Debian support offerings. "HP is
making $25 million by supporting the free Debian GNU/Linux distribution in
what may ultimately turn out to be a challenge to commercial distributions
from Novell and Red Hat."
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Big Debian Linux Payday For HP (InternetNews) Posted Feb 24, 2007 0:14 UTC (Sat) by ehovland (subscriber, #2284) [Link] It would be interesting to see what HP has managed to feed back into Debian. And does any of that cash get back to Debian?
Big Debian Linux Payday For HP (InternetNews) Posted Feb 24, 2007 1:35 UTC (Sat) by joey (subscriber, #328) [Link] HP contributes to Debian by providing and hosting some servers, by funding some developers (such as past DPL Bdale Garbee), and by being one of the major contributors to funding for the yearly DebConf.
Big Debian Linux Payday For HP (InternetNews) Posted Feb 24, 2007 2:52 UTC (Sat) by hmh (subscriber, #3838) [Link] And lets not forget the group subscription to LWN for all Debian Developers. I value it a great deal :-)
Big Debian Linux Payday For HP (InternetNews) Posted Feb 24, 2007 1:37 UTC (Sat) by sjj (subscriber, #2020) [Link] Seems Debian and Ubuntu nowadays default-install hplip (HP Linux Printing and Imaging System) even if the system has no HP peripherals. I was wondering why...
Big Debian Linux Payday For HP (InternetNews) Posted Feb 24, 2007 2:57 UTC (Sat) by mattdm (subscriber, #18) [Link] Man, if that's the best conspiracy theory you can come up with....
Big Debian Linux Payday For HP (InternetNews) Posted Feb 24, 2007 5:09 UTC (Sat) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link] hahah.
The reason they have that stuff by default is because they want printers to be plug-n-play. HP is one of the very companies that produces and supports fully open source drivers for their consumer-style printer stuff.
That and Epson Avasys has some open source drivers (under GPl and some under their own public license) also, but I don't know a whole lot about them.
HP, in some ways, kicks ass. They've been supporting Debian on some types of their hardware for several years now.
Big Debian Linux Payday For HP (InternetNews) Posted Feb 25, 2007 22:06 UTC (Sun) by moxfyre (subscriber, #13847) [Link] <blockquote>HP, in some ways, kicks ass. They've been supporting Debian on some types of their hardware for several years now.</blockquote>They also have provided the servers for Kernel.org... and have even come to the rescue with new hardware when stuff has broken down there.
I have a 5-year-old HP laptop which has (more or less) withstood an *incredible* amount of abuse (though the screen hinges don't work and I can't find replacements). I like most of their hardware a lot. They've historically been almost as cheap as the white box guys, but with support almost as good as Dell's, I'd say. I have done a couple of warranty repairs with them and been very pleased.
Big Debian Linux Payday For HP (InternetNews) Posted Feb 27, 2007 2:59 UTC (Tue) by sjj (subscriber, #2020) [Link] It wasn't meant to be taken all that seriously...
Big Debian Linux Payday For HP (InternetNews)
Big Debian Linux Payday For HP (InternetNews) Posted Feb 24, 2007 9:47 UTC (Sat) by pcampe (guest, #28223) [Link] HP is supporting Debian in a subset of its products. As an example, they do not support a lot (probably all of them, not tested) of their SANS with Debian, and SANs is where the real money and technical challenges are, it's not difficult to support a server which has usually very common hardware.
revenue vs profit Posted Feb 26, 2007 1:50 UTC (Mon) by pjm (subscriber, #2080) [Link] Clarification: the paragraphIn fiscal 2006, $25 million in hardware sales in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) were directly related to HP's Debian support.suggests that the $25 million in question is revenue, not profit, and is associated with significant additional hardware costs.
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