On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 22:53, Levi Ramsey wrote: > On Fri Sep 12 22:45 +0100, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 17:57, Jan Ciger wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > MEISCH,CORY (HP-Vancouver,ex1) wrote: > > > | Corporate branded distros? What if a company like HP wanted to "brand" the > > > | MDK distro for distribution on their hardware. Is there a financial > > > | opportunity there to charge? > > > | > > > | Cory > > > | > > > > > > If HP want's to brand the distro, they can already. The source is over > > > there. Mandrake, RedHat and others do it with their code, so HP can > > > > Sure. But why bother spending the time to get in house people to learn > > how to do it? I think Cory's idea's a good one - ask big corporate > > clients if they'd like Mandrakesoft to do the work of creating a > > customised version of the distro for them, for a relatively small fee - > > make it cheaper than doing it in-house would be. > > MandrakeSoft already does exactly that.
Ah, right. Good to know :) -- adamw
