etbe: the only way in which it would be sensible for debian to "follow" a commercial company, with profit-maximisation at its core, would be if those commercial companies removed profit-maximisation from their articles of incorporation (and replaced them with "non-loss" articles).

social contracts such as those followed by debian automatically conflict with profit-maximisation priorities.

period.

assuming that for profit-maximising companies it is far too difficult for them to be able to get shareholder's permission to change the articles of incorporation, the only acceptable option is for debian's release cycle to be followed by profit-maximisation companies, not the other way round.