On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 16:29 -0700, Paul Shaffer wrote: > Just to clarify, I don't disagree with Fedora's approach to the > licensing and software patent issues at all. In fact, I think it's > quite admirable. Just maybe not the best way to build user base for a > distro that is ostensibly for "lazy" users. > > I suspect the target users are not really the vast majority of > potential users at all. The more advanced users and administrators > who can effectively diagnose problems and submit bug reports would > seem much more amenable to Fedora's real strategy. What a brilliant > way to sustain a virtual army of qualified beta testers and push their > business associates and cients towards the $$ lines. > > The whole open source/upstream/patent debate is just a sideshow. > Brilliant. > > I agree to a point. It would be telling to show just how many of us > chucked in the $29 for the first Bob's living room boxed sets of > RedHat?? Let's face it, in the very early days of Linux, getting a > desktop to work at all was no small miracle. A CD drive was almost 500 > bucks. How many did their first install from a stack of floppies with > Slackware?? How many ran the very first single floppy that tested to > see if your machine would handle Linux at all, by just by booting it > to see?? Looking back, the assertion that the Desktop first user > becomes the Server Admin user, is probably valid marketing-wise and > not to be dismissed lightly. Food for thought, Ric > > -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net <---down4now too ================================================ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
