Diminished importance of Debian?

Posted Apr 7, 2009 16:36 UTC (Tue) by fmyhr (subscriber, #14803)
In reply to: Diminished importance of Debian? by fmyhr
Parent article: Debian Project Leader Election Quiet This Year

To put it another way: If Debian were to vanish tomorrow, what would become of Ubuntu? Of MEPIS?

(Please note that I do not mean to imply that Debian's only value is as a base for the above or other distros. Far from it, I find Debian extremely valuable in itself, and have great respect and admiration for Debian maintainers. But I also believe that Debian's importance extends beyond itself to the those other popular distros based on it.)