Development question

[CS DBA]

On 2/7/14, 5:17 PM, Doug wrote:
> On 02/07/2014 04:54 PM, CS DBA wrote:
>> Hi All;
>>
>> It seems to me that the "marriage" that Microsoft & Apple enjoy per 
>> hardware designed for their software gives them a huge advantage. I 
>> see that the Linux community is quite good at coming up with drivers, 
>> software, etc for hardware after the fact.
>>
>> I wonder, what could be accomplished if a Linux based distro had the 
>> same advantage?  I'm in the early stages of researching just such a 
>> company.
>>
>> We'll be setting up some infrastructure around community involvement 
>> and feedback, however I'd be interested in any initial feedback you 
>> all have.
>>
>> I'm thinking that the OS would remain fully open source (GPL) and 
>> we'd license the hardware specs in the same way.
>>
>> Then we could release laptops & desktops that truly have an 
>> advantage. The company would couple a solid Linux distro with it's 
>> own tweaks (polish & branding & such) coupled with our own hardware.
>>
>> I suspect that instead of waiting for the current HW vendors to 
>> release new hardware and then quickly figure out how to interface 
>> with it we can put effort into polish and functionality and quickly 
>> become the trend setters for MS and Apple to follow.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Thanks in advance
> Sounds good, but bucking the likes of MS and Apple? And I think it 
> would be difficult to compete hardware-wise, since you wouldn't have the
> huge base to get the advantage of large quantity hardware buys. Of 
> course, Apple has that, but still charges an arm and a leg for their 
> hardware. . . .
> If you do pursue this, I hope you don't commit to something like 
> Ubuntu, with its hated interface. Your system should offer some choices.

we will be all about choices, thanks for the feedback



>
> Good luck!
>
> --doug