Which distro for the enterprise now?

On Feb 6, 2004, at 7:49 AM, Phil Mattison wrote:

> On the other, it
> seems a little cynical to build a public company on the backs of so
> many
> unpaid contributors.

Lets ignore the fact that Linus himself and many other contributors
became wealthy because Red Hat essentially gave them stock before
their IPO. Lets also set aside the fact that many contributors are
paid through one means or another. It still seems to me that if we
reject the notion of building a distribution on volunteer contributions
we end up in the SCO camp. Even MS and Apple see nothing wrong with
rolling code contributed by the community into their project. Daryl and
the boys do say that this is an ethical problem, though of course they
do it.