On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 4:37 AM, Fernando Cassia <fcassia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Genes MailLists <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Unless 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, > isnt´t there any economic value or benefit from this?. > > H*ck I´ve read about firms paying bloggers and/or twitter users to > write good things about a certain brand... > > Also, what part of "initially" didn´t you understand?. IF the project > takes off, tablet manufacturers might choose to install it. Just like > Ubuntu didn´t 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 firm´s overall R+D budget. I´m not talking about porting Fedora > to ARM. That´s 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). Okay, so you know that ARM is a secondary ARCH in Fedora. You're just wanting someone with a bit of spare money (quite a bit, really) to start making hardware with Fedora pre-installed. If I ever win the lottery, that's one of the things I want to do. (But I don't play the lottery, so the odds of that are less than really low. Sorry. :-/ ) -- 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
