On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 4:37 AM, Fernando Cassia fcassia@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Genes MailLists lists@sapience.com 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).
Okay, so you know that ARM is a secondary ARCH in Fedora. You're just wanting someone with a bit of spare money (quite a bit, really) to start making hardware with Fedora pre-installed.
If I ever win the lottery, that's one of the things I want to do. (But I don't play the lottery, so the odds of that are less than really low. Sorry. :-/ )