'Commercial Partners'
Eric S. Raymond
esr at thyrsus.com
Fri Mar 31 19:43:59 UTC 2006
Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com>:
> "Other OS vendors" have a revenue stream to give a cut of in the form of
> a patent license royalty. Not quite sure what you are expecting RHAT to
> do about that wrt Fedora.
You're telling me RHEL isn't making money?
> Misrepresenting the actual goals of the project with your personal
> preference as to what they should be is not arguing for change, it is
> trying to bamboozle people.
No misrepresentation here. I've laid out the logic very clearly --
Red Hat has a business decision to make about whether it (still)
wants the desktop and what it's prepared to do to get it. It ties
into a larger issue about what the Linux community needs to do to
thrive under competitive pressure, which *is* a question for Fedora.
> I don't see a single reason to accept your dramatic characterizations as
> accurate.
Well, I've been right about this sort of thing before, and I've
continued to pay attention. You're living in an industry
significantly shaped by the fact that I got some key market analysis
right and then addressed the implied problem, and a lot of VCs and
CEOs and investment bankers listen *very* respectfully when I talk.
This doesn't make me infallible, of course, but it does mean betting
that I'm wrong this time is not something to do casually.
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