Hi Balu!

* Balu V gmail.com> [070627 15:47]:

Hi Alexander!

Thanks for the reply! I'm glad I recieved a reply, but because I had a
project deadline at hand, I was forced to change my organization.

But its not a problem though! I would still like to know more about Debian,
because after graduation, I want to work mainly in the open source industry.
About publicity, I'm curious as to how you guys let people know that so and
so Debian products are available, and are much better than corporate stuff?
Where do you mainly get the funding from for the publicity? And which media
(or medium) are the main source (internet, tv etc.) of advertizing Debian
products?

Also, I'm curious as to how open source survives even after most of its
products being free of cost?

No hurries!

Regards,
- Balu

On 7/11/07, Alexander Schmehl debian.org> wrote:

On Sunday 15 July 2007 18.08:01 Balu V wrote:

Reading your questions below, it seems to me that you do not yet know what
Free Software / Open Source is about. Answering your specific questions:

Debian has a mailing list (debian-announce) that is ultimately the official
source where new releases of the Debian GNU/Linux system are announced.

Debian (the project, as organised under the vague umbrella of SPI and lead
by the Debian Project Leader) does not have a policy of comparing Debian
with other products or projects. You will find any number of comparisons
(by various criteria and of wildly different quality), but they are written
by third parties.