The money would be made by offering services to companies like Dell, to
help them differentiate their products from others. For example, helping
Dell to make a "Multimedia PC" where the whole thing is oriented around
doing Multimedia in Linux. Things like knowing what music composition
programs t
IMHO, putting Gnome and KDE toy desktops with Linux is a mistake in an
effort to try and draw Windows users away from windows. Gnome and KDE
look SO amatureish and unprofessional. Even XFCE which looked a lot
like CDE has started to look like Gnome. CDE is the most professional
desktop I've seen
acOSX interface just more keyboard friendly.
Wade
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of T. Ribbrock
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 5:33 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: OS Desktop Business Model?
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 05:49:46PM -0500,
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 05:49:46PM -0500, Jeff Wimmer wrote:
[...]
> Gnome and KDE look
> SO amatureish and unprofessional. Even XFCE which looked a lot like CDE has
> started to look like Gnome. CDE is the most professional desktop I've seen
> on linux,
[...]
Ahem. You *are* aware that this is
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 09:17:37AM -0400, Kevin MacNeil wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 10:54:46PM -0700, bruce wrote:
>
> > my $0.02 worth..and i don't normally follow this group/thread for
> > linux to compete/succeed against windows/msoft on the desktop... there
> > needs to be a rock soli
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 10:54:46PM -0700, bruce wrote:
> my $0.02 worth..and i don't normally follow this group/thread for
> linux to compete/succeed against windows/msoft on the desktop... there
> needs to be a rock solid office set of apps... for 20% of the price...
>
> then you would see m
ughes
Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 7:10 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: OS Desktop Business Model?
On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 17:55, Hal Burgiss wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 05:49:46PM -0500, Jeff Wimmer wrote:
>
> > at a reasonable price and marketed correctly with Openoffice, they
On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 17:55, Hal Burgiss wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 05:49:46PM -0500, Jeff Wimmer wrote:
>
> > at a reasonable price and marketed correctly with Openoffice, they'll have a
> > desktop that competes hands down with Windows.
>
> There's still one big difference ... windows is
Ed Wilts:
>What makes you think that Red Hat has given up on the desktop? There is
>the current RHEL WS line although I will agree that for the home user,
>this doesn't compete with Windows for pricing.
Well, we all know now that the Red Hat Linux boxed set was not profitable..
It seems to me
So very true.
JEFFREY WIMMER
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From: "Hal Burgiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 5:55 PM
Subject: Re: OS Desktop Business Model?
> On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 05:49:46PM -0500, Jeff Wimmer wro
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 05:49:46PM -0500, Jeff Wimmer wrote:
> at a reasonable price and marketed correctly with Openoffice, they'll have a
> desktop that competes hands down with Windows.
There's still one big difference ... windows is for weenies, and Linux
is not.
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Hal Burgiss
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From: "Ed Wilts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 4:36 PM
Subject: Re: OS Desktop Business Model?
> On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 06:28:16PM -0300, Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto
wrote:
> > Given
On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 17:36, Ed Wilts wrote:
> I believe that we will soon see Red Hat make a push back into the SOHO
> market with a new boxed product that will be very competitive against
> Windows (financially)... It would not surprise me to see a big push
> into other markets with this produc
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 06:28:16PM -0300, Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto wrote:
> Given that most of Microsoft's profit comes from the desktop, I'm wondering:
> if Linux, as I see it, is on its way to becoming a complete, competitive
> desktop system, would this money simply cease to flow? Is the
Given that most of Microsoft's profit comes from the desktop, I'm wondering:
if Linux, as I see it, is on its way to becoming a complete, competitive
desktop system, would this money simply cease to flow? Is there any model at
sight for profitable Desktop distros? It looks like RedHat has given
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