Murdock wrote: The Free Software Foundation
plays an extremely important role in the future of
Debian. By the simple fact that they will be
distributing it, a message is sent to the world that
Linux is not a commercial product and that it never
should be, but that this does not mean that Linux will
never be able to compete commercially. For those of you
who disagree, I challenge you to rationalize the
success of GNU Emacs and GCC, which are not commercial
software but which have had quite an impact on the
commercial market regardless of that fact.
The time has come to concentrate on the future of Linux
rather than on the destructive goal of enriching
oneself at the expense of the entire Linux community
and its future. The development and distribution of
Debian may not be the answer to the problems that I
have outlined in the Manifesto, but I hope that it will
at least attract enough attention to these problems to
allow them to be solved. Shortly after the Manifesto's
release, the Free Software Foundation made its first
major request.
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