People have figured out, however, that, with the addition of a cheap disk drive, these systems can be made to run Linux. Preference will be given to letters which are short, to the point, and well written. We do not have a policy against anonymous letters, but we will be reluctant to include them. In other words, in the time it takes to dial a 1-800 number, someone may have fixed a bug in or added a feature to Debian, sometimes before the first ring, and definitely before you finally get off the holding queue and talk to a real human being. By contrast, the Linux kernel often sits idle for just under 6 minutes at a time without anyone even discussing, much less submitting, patches for it.
Bug fixes can take several hours to get integrated.
Interestingly enough, many people feel that Debian is a Linux distribution that is technically superior to a number of similar Linux distributions which are revised less often. Apparently having a very high revision rate does not by itself have a negative affect on software quality, or Debian is doing something else which compensates for this effect. Encrypted email preferred. Go ahead, you know you want to. Your license prohibits users from redistributing your software for profit and prohibits redistribution of the source code.