On 03/28/2011 11:35 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> The only people who can realistically target tablets are the ones with >> commercial backing and a business plan. It is not a market where a >> volunteer community can easily thrive in. It requires custom built >> kernels, patching all over the stack etc and since Red Hat is not >> interested, it is unlikely to happen IMO. > If you shoot down the idea from the start, obviously it won´t happen. On the contrary, I have no impact on any actual outcome. > I think a team of 4-5 people could buy the 2 or 3 most popular tablet > models, or at least the ones getting the most press reports (I´d stay > away from Apple)... HP, RIM, Samsung, and build Fedore for those. You grossly underestimate the amount of work it would take. Even a team of 4 or 5 dedicated people working full time on such a project would be barely scratching the surface > For me, it´d be a good promotion for the OS and brand mindshare, even > if the firm doesn´t directly make money of it. Hint: provide a > "donations" button. > > And one day, if the project makes good progress, tablet makers might > even decide to preload Fedora on their tablets as an option, and THEN > RedHat can charge the firm for support and continued development. > > But nothing of this would happen until someone does the first step... Red Hat is in the business of enterprise support. Tablets are a entirely different market and one that Red Hat has shown zero interest in it and yes, talk is cheap. -- 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
