On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Genes MailLists <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ÂUnless there's a rational business plan it makes no sense to sponsor > this ... think like a businessperson .. Is mindshare and brand promotion not a reason enough? If you have hundreds of thousands of people talking about your brand world-wide, isntÂt there any economic value or benefit from this?. H*ck IÂve read about firms paying bloggers and/or twitter users to write good things about a certain brand... Also, what part of "initially" didnÂt you understand?. IF the project takes off, tablet manufacturers might choose to install it. Just like Ubuntu didnÂt make any money at first, and then one day Dell choose to preinstall it. To me, the beneits are evident. Just like not everything Microsoft does generates a profit inmediately, but has the long-term goal of having people talk about the brand and the windows software ecosystem. Specially if the required investment is relatively minuscule, compared to the firmÂs overall R+D budget. IÂm not talking about porting Fedora to ARM. ThatÂs been already done, so the work would be mostly packaging and buying one of each of these popular tablets and find what devices-features might need tweaking or drivers (say, for accelerometers). FC -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
