On Thu, 9 May 2013, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
Upshot, *today* anyone who thinks there is a commercial future in illumos on the desktop is probably smoking something. There are a few people who would be willing to pay for it, but it needs more than a few dozen people willing to pay a couple hundred dollars (more often substantially less) to make this a viable and interesting (economically) venture.
There is little "commercial future" in the desktop for Linux distributions as well yet almost all of them have a graphical desktop. Availability of a graphical desktop is seen as a requirement for common acceptance. Much/most of the graphical desktop development taking place for Linux does not seem to be done by the companies which popularly peddle it (e.g. Canonical has been more of a desktop packager except for its useless Unity).
The argument about "no commerical future" is becoming worn out and tired since that (commercial purpose) is not why OpenIndiana/Illmos users want to log into a graphical desktop.
Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
