Liz: I think Charley was talking about accessibility companies. I think that would be folks like GW and Freedom Scientific. Can one make money in linux? Absolutely--but you do it differently than you do in Windows. History is replete with examples of companies that had thriving businesses and then went out of business because they failed to understand how to make a go of it when the earth moved under their feet. Anyone remember Smith-Corona? Or, how about Remington/Univac? They were even into computers. On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Liz Hare wrote: > > >"no market," but the radical truth is more like "We haven't a > >clue of how to get money for it." > > Forgive a comment from an extreme newbie who doesn't even *have* Linux yet. > > I've been looking at the companies who make Linux preinstalled systems > (there's a long list at linux.org), and they seem to have some kind of > market niche because some of them use hardware that has been tested and is > known to be Linux-compatible. With the Windoze dominance of the entire > computing market, it's attractive to me to buy a system whose components > are known to be compatible with Linux. It seems better than ordering > elsewhere and not being sure the different parts of the system will work > well with Linux. > > any comments or thoughts? > > Liz > Liz Hare, Ph.D. > Research Associate > Animal Breeding and Genetics Group > B47 Morrison Hall > Cornell University > Ithaca, NY 14853 > (607) 255 2380 > eh51 at cornell.edu > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper, Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.asp Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp Learn how to make accessible software at http://www.afb.org/accessapp.asp
