On Tue, 29 May 2001, Phil Motta wrote:
[lots of good comments deleted]
> Any company that is going to try to just be a software development house
> developing free software needs to explore every revenue opportunity that
> the market presents.
Indeed. And more to the point: Any company need
If that happens to be
> something that email can do - great. If not then please write something or
> find something that will and you will be handsomely paid. If that need were
> provided by some genetically engineered Speed-of-light pigeon with a
> holographic printer strapped to it
effry Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 10:11 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Business Plans
Repeat after me:
Open Source is a Software Development Model, not a Business Model
Open Source is a Software Development Model, not a Business Model
Open Source is a
On Mon, 28 May 2001, Jeffry Smith wrote:
> Benjamin Scott opined:
> >On 27 May 2001, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
>
> >> Indeed, but it is entirely possible that one company will subcontract
> for
> >> Ah, you have illustrated my point nicely. Thank you ;-). Why hire
> >> Linux-specific company whe
Benjamin Scott opined:
>On 27 May 2001, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
>> Indeed, but it is entirely possible that one company will subcontract
for
>> Ah, you have illustrated my point nicely. Thank you ;-). Why hire
>> Linux-specific company when you can hire a "GC" like Taos, Modis,
>> Collective T
On 27 May 2001, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
>>> If you need someone to support, hire a few sysadmins that can do more than
>>> "just Linux", since most environments have several different platforms.
>>
>> What about the majority of companies, which are too small to hire even
>> one full-time IT s
On 27 May 2001 12:30:00 -0400, Benjamin Scott wrote:
>
> > If you need someone to support, hire a few sysadmins that can do more than
> > "just Linux", since most environments have several different platforms.
>
> What about the majority of companies, which are too small to hire even one
> ful
On 26 May 2001, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
> However, when several businesses start to spring up to support the same
> OS, I can see where it would lead to the impression of the OS being to
> difficult to use.
Perception is a difficult thing to manage. There are a large number of
people who per
On 26 May 2001 06:19:35 -0700, Ken Ambrose wrote:
>
> I dunno -- some of his points seem valid, but (for example) let's address
> the LinuxCare bit: "... Linux is so difficult to use or is so
> unpredictable that an entire industry has cropped to [sic] provide support
> for frustrated users." [T
Repeat after me:
Open Source is a Software Development Model, not a Business Model
Open Source is a Software Development Model, not a Business Model
Open Source is a Software Development Model, not a Business Model
. ..
Business models include selling products and services. Software
Development
All,
I was just reading this article on Kero5hin:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/5/17/63515/2438 . It
is just someone thinking about open sourse(Linux, specifically) based
business models and why they cannot work. It isn't the typical rant
about OSS not being mature/stable/secu
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