On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:43:59 -0500 "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > You're telling me RHEL isn't making money? Not from Fedora. > No misrepresentation here. I've laid out the logic very clearly -- > Red Hat has a business decision to make about whether it (still) > wants the desktop and what it's prepared to do to get it. It ties > into a larger issue about what the Linux community needs to do to > thrive under competitive pressure, which *is* a question for Fedora. You do know that Red Hat has products designed specifically for the commercial desktop right? And Fedora isn't even a product sold by Red Hat. > Well, I've been right about this sort of thing before, and I've > continued to pay attention. You're living in an industry > significantly shaped by the fact that I got some key market analysis > right and then addressed the implied problem, and a lot of VCs and > CEOs and investment bankers listen *very* respectfully when I talk. > > This doesn't make me infallible, of course, but it does mean betting > that I'm wrong this time is not something to do casually. Nobody is betting that you're wrong. There is absolutely no doubt you're correct that a pure open source Linux desktop can not compete directly with Windows. However, it's also quite likely that Linux + proprietary drivers and apps still can't compete in that space. Anyway, none of that has anything to do with Fedora. Sean -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
