Le dimanche 17 juin 2012 à 21:54 -0600, Kevin Fenzi a écrit : > On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 23:21:14 -0400 (EDT) > Jay Sulzberger <jays@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I think 50 million dollars toward buying, and properly arranging > > the UEFI, of several lots of x86 computers would indeed solve > > part of the problem you point out. > > > > Why not? > > Why? 50million dollars is a big order, but I don't see how this would > change MicroSoft's mind, or the vendors who still wish to sell Windows > 8 client certified systems. Just to put thing in perspective, for 50 millions $, that would mean around 6 new laptop for each Red hat employees. ( in fact, I think more, or with better hardware, due to bulk pricing ). So of course, the question is "what to do with them", and then this become "resell them", ( and so that mean "become a online hardware vendor" ( with all the associate cost, like taxes, etc )) or keep them ( that mean in 3/4 years, the money is lost ). > Out of curiosity, what would be different about these machines you > propose? > > Secure boot off by default? > Secure boot completely removed? > > > What does Red Hat have to lose? > > 50 million dollars? Again, to put thing in perspective, that mean budget sponsoring for 8000 FUDCON ( based on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Zurich_2010_Budget ), or if we take 73K as the average pay for a software engineer in the US, around 650 software engineers. Again, if we take around 1100 commiters on the kernel ( http://lwn.net/Articles/373405/ ), and 10% coming from Red Hat, that mean spending 6 time more than what Red hat pay on kernel hacker. I am sure that we could continue endlessly to show how much that's quite a lot of money better spent elsewhere. Cause money spent buying laptop is not money spent writing code. -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
