Thank you and congratulations [LWN.net]

Thank you and congratulations

Posted Feb 15, 2009 22:03 UTC (Sun) by man_ls (guest, #15091)
In reply to: Thank you and congratulations by dato
Parent article: Debian 5.0 released

That is fine then. Keep it up! World domination is a few releases away.

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Thank you and congratulations

Posted Feb 15, 2009 23:53 UTC (Sun) by kragil (guest, #34373) [Link]

I think you meant that as a joke, but let's just give that a more "serious" thought.

For the sake of argument:
More and more governments want to use Open Source. The most sensible thing to do is to use already existing projects that are not tied to companies. So Debian would be (IMHO) the most sensible choice and indeed the German government already uses Debian. So Debian already has a good standing in the EU (biggest market there is). From there it could easily spread to other countries. Debians meritocracy/Do-ocracy nature will help them in the long run. Everybody can integrate Debian and integrate themself into the Debian structure.

I think the next 10 years will be very interesting. At first we will see lots of .gov Distros (Nova, Pradus, Debian etc.), but they will consolidate at some point. That is just the way those things always work.

PS. Great release! And Congrats of course!