[BusyBox] Layoff at Lineo...

Glenn McGrath bug1 at optushome.com.au
Mon Sep 10 08:47:05 UTC 2001


On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 07:15:41 -0400
"David Douthitt" <ssrat at mailbag.com> wrote:

> David Kimdon wrote:
> 
> > I doubt busybox/uclibc/tinylogin would need to move again, the only
thing
> > that would cause that would be Debian disappearing; Debian has a
fairly
> > long history hostory already and it will exist as long as there are
people
> > happy to work on it.
> 
> Never say never.  Recently SuSe had to be bailed out of near-bankruptcy,
> and VA made drastic cuts that appeared to threaten SourceForge, and now
> Lineo went through not one but two serious cutbacks.  What (or who) is
> next?
> 
> How do these goings-on reflect about affairs at Caldera, who just
> acquired SCO?
> 
>

Debian is a project, so it cant go bankrupt.
Membership has grown dramatically over the last 2 years, aproaching 1000
developers now, so people are happy to work on it.


Glenn





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