On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 15:31, Chris Croome wrote: > -----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. http://www.linuxinstall.org/fedora.php Cheers, Brent > > 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----- > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
