> I'm going to say one more really mean thing that will piss everyone > off: when you have a community that has repeatedly made it clear that > it is not willing to pay for stuff, and whose intellectual leadership > rails against the concept of intellectual property itself, it probably > cuts into the business prospects of trying to sell media to this > audience.
Once again you're painting with very broad strokes here. The Linux culture is quite a bit more diverse than the high-priest mono-culture you are suggesting. I count myself lucky to be living in a country where media standards are not dictated simply by the de-factory proprietary format, and I have no issue whatsoever paying for software. There are more moderate views than those pushed by Richard Stallman i.e. try to see what Novell and Miguel de Icaza are doing. Linux dominates servers, is about to dominate the smartphone marked... I think it's a grave mistake to disregard desktop Linux on those merits. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
