Tim Spriggs wrote: > James Carlson wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> >> >>> One particular annoyance of mine being that it is fairly easy to write a >>> single ps which does both "ps -ef" and "ps uxga". >>> >>> >> Not only easy to write, but that's the default on other OSes. (AIX >> had that a decade or more ago. :-<) >> >> That's one of the sorts of things that are hard to fix, even though >> easy to write. It's not a big project, and you can't point to $1e9 of >> new revenue to fix minor annoyances, so it has to be done in someone's >> copious free time. >> >> > however, it's the sorta straw placed on a new user's back that will > eventually point to a big loss of revenue.conversely > And, conversely the straw forced upon the old user's back with the attendant loss of that "old" revenue. The decision cones down to "do you value one group more, or should they be valued equally?" There's room for both SXCE and whatever Indiana mutates into, but the availability of both must be assured.
To me, there seems to be a common fallacy with the assumption that revenue automagically appears with a new user. Both Solaris and OpenSolaris have been free of charge to download and use. It's only when hardware and/or services are purchased and a check is written, is there actual revenue. Someone from Sun told me a few years ago (ca. 2000 or so) that it cost Sun $17.00 per download, I don't recall how many successful downloads there were, but about the only money that flowed was from Sun to it's ISP's. John _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
