-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi On Tue 04-Nov-2003 at 12:01:22PM -0800, John Wendel wrote: > > There's no money in the Linux desktop market for home > users. I think there is some, for example Mozilla CDs: http://store.mozilla.org/ Mozilla offer a CD with all products for all platforms for $3.95 shipped worldwide. Or OpenOffice CD: http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/ They link to a load of people selling CDs. Personally I don't see why RedHat can't do either or both of these things with Fedora -- offer cheap CDs and/or link to other people selling cheap CDs. The exchange value of a Fedora CD set is basically the cost of producing and shipping them, there is some money to be made there but not much. I think this is why RedHat are concentrating on selling services to businesses. What RedHat are doing makes sense to me and I have found the nonsense being posted on places like slashdot to be quite depressing -- what RedHat are doing is great, they are opening up development to the community and this is already leading to lots of exciting stuff happening -- the likes of slashdot should be celebrating this and be for the opening up of all free software projects. Chris - -- Free Software may be the foundation of a new economy http://www.oekonux.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/qAy5IQYsxIuy3pERAprIAKDXt7ur3nm+vD1mM+CMU6dESnnDmACfWVUa Q0F1DqWz7dsy2uhe/It45BM= =JDME -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
