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On 2003-12-03 05:08, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> To the extent that they are self-supporting, they become economically
> irrelevant to a commerical distribution or to a support provider of
> UserLinux. The best that you will get out of these customers are
Theodore Ts'o wrote:
Why does Group 1 really care about running under Linux, as opposed to some other OS? Is it really about price sensitivity? If so, it's surprising because to the extent that they pay $50,000 for Oracle, or $1,000,000+ for SAP R/3, why should they care about the cost of
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 08:24:09AM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
| > This is the Proprietary software model, with artificial, government
| > imposed (via copyright laws) monopolies, resulting in customer lock-in
| > and price maximization.
|
| I dont see a monopol, at least no government imposed.
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 04:36:18PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> How many financials implementations are ultimately needed - really only
> one, perhaps customized for vertical markets.
A healthy market requires competition. And different companies have very
different needs. The IT Infrastructure
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 11:12, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 12:04:31PM +, bruce wrote:
> > > I did a first pass at the UserLinux white paper, it's at
> > > http://userlinux.org/white_paper.html. I think I'll sleep for a while.
>
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On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 15:08, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 04:52:47PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote:
> > I don't deny that many businesses do have to come to their vendor on
> > bended knee to get support for a new platform. It's important, however,
> > to realize that this does indi
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 04:52:47PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote:
> I don't deny that many businesses do have to come to their vendor on
> bended knee to get support for a new platform. It's important, however,
> to realize that this does indicate a problem in the customer's
> relationship with the
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 04:52:47PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote:
> So, our problem is how to rebalance the vendor-customer relationship for
> our purposes. Probably the most useful tool is the industry group
> organization, where a number of similar businesses get together to steer
> their particip
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 04:52:47PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote:
> So, our problem is how to rebalance the vendor-customer relationship for
> our purposes. Probably the most useful tool is the industry group
> organization, where a number of similar businesses get together to steer
> their particip
x27;o wrote:
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 12:04:31PM +, bruce wrote:
I did a first pass at the UserLinux white paper, it's at
http://userlinux.org/white_paper.html. I think I'll sleep for a while.
This is an interesting white paper, but I think i
> On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 12:04:31PM +, bruce wrote:
> > I did a first pass at the UserLinux white paper, it's at
> > http://userlinux.org/white_paper.html. I think I'll sleep for a while.
This is an interesting white paper, but I think it's missing som
That's userlinux.com . I don't have the .org, some domain squatter has
that.
Thanks
Bruce
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 12:04:31PM +, bruce wrote:
> I did a first pass at the UserLinux white paper, it's at
> http://userlinux.org/white_paper.html. I think I
I did a first pass at the UserLinux white paper, it's at
http://userlinux.org/white_paper.html. I think I'll sleep for a while.
Thanks
Bruce
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