> As for, "the community is better than the manufacturer" try having an outage over the holidays, and see how your community reacts to, "help me or my business

> As for, "the community is better than the manufacturer" try having an outage over the holidays, and see how your community reacts to, "help me or my business fails". And for those people there are companies like Canonical, who derive their product from Debian. There is also Redhat, SUSE, etc. Lots of commercial options grow up around these vibrant communities to fill the gaps that they sometimes leave. This is an unmitigatedly good thing.