> Does free software have "brand loyalty"? Does RedHat keep existing customers
> because they are RedHat loyal or because it's a technically superior product?
> (That was just an example, not a specific taste/preference) In other words,
> do people choose one free software product over another because it's a superior
> item, or because they have a sense of loyalty to that product?
Red Hat and Debian both have package managers (rpm and dpkg
respectively) which make it easy to upgrade to a newer release of
their respective distributions without losing local customizations;
switching distributions would require more work.
-- Aaron M. Ucko <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu) [Stark raving sane]