Expanded focus

Expanded focus

Posted Dec 9, 2004 18:10 UTC (Thu) by Max.Hyre (subscriber, #1054)
In reply to: Wrong paradigm by AJWM
Parent article: The Linux roadmap

Nobody's competing on kernel content (other than coders and teams trying to improve on things :-). Not even Mandrakesoft, Red Hat, SuSE, .... Those organizations are competing on packaging, support, community buy-in(?), whatnot.

Both company A and company B could use some feature X in Linux that is not presently there.
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Company A adds ... feature X back to the public Linux. B will eventually pick up on it ... but A has had advance notice of and experience with the feature, and is months ahead of B in making use of it....

In the world of my first sentence, AJWM's analysis is even stronger. Company A has no direct use for feature X, rather, X strengthens their own (yes, possibly proprietary) offering. So B must pick up not only on X, but also whatever A has that amplifies X's usefulness to them. At that point, the situation is exactly as suggested in the parent post, but still better for A.

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