On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Genes MailLists <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Unless there's a rational business plan it makes no sense to sponsor > this ... think like a businessperson .. Is mindshare and brand promotion not a reason enough? If you have hundreds of thousands of people talking about your brand world-wide, isnt´t there any economic value or benefit from this?. H*ck I´ve read about firms paying bloggers and/or twitter users to write good things about a certain brand... Also, what part of "initially" didn´t you understand?. IF the project takes off, tablet manufacturers might choose to install it. Just like Ubuntu didn´t make any money at first, and then one day Dell choose to preinstall it. To me, the beneits are evident. Just like not everything Microsoft does generates a profit inmediately, but has the long-term goal of having people talk about the brand and the windows software ecosystem. Specially if the required investment is relatively minuscule, compared to the firm´s overall R+D budget. I´m not talking about porting Fedora to ARM. That´s been already done, so the work would be mostly packaging and buying one of each of these popular tablets and find what devices-features might need tweaking or drivers (say, for accelerometers). FC -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
