> "He missed a big one: you have no way to stop Linux distributions from hacking up your software, and you'll suffer the consequences of whatever they do."
Maybe Debian is more respectful since it's open source not backed by a company with enterprise customers?
By contrast in my personal experience as a developer of something that got packaged in Debian, I discovered later that that package had a bunch of patches added, a man page written (!) and so on, none of which was bad, but also none of which was fed back to me at all.
(In case not obvious: I work for Red Hat on Fedora.)
(Disclaimer: I work for Red Hat)