Re: Linux on ARM tablets?

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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. :-/ )
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