On Fri, 2011-03-25 at 15:20 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote:
What is the commercial reason to do this then? I understand what -you- want - but redhat needs to have a business reason to leverage this - like RHEL derives from fedora ...
Unless there's a rational business plan it makes no sense to sponsor this ... think like a businessperson ...
Well... given the demise of Meego, more or less, and the pending demise of Symbian and the fact that Nokia just signed a deal with the software devil to use Windows on their handsets, I think there is a huge opportunity for Redhat to go after the mobile device market. Just look at the success of Android. A lot of players in the mobile market would love to partner with someone other than Google.