Aaron Seigo talks life, free software and reinventing the Desktop (ComputerWorld) [LWN.net]

Aaron Seigo talks life, free software and reinventing the Desktop (ComputerWorld)

Posted Feb 3, 2008 8:12 UTC (Sun) by Beineri (subscriber, #39002)
In reply to: Aaron Seigo talks life, free software and reinventing the Desktop (ComputerWorld) by Ed_L.
Parent article: Aaron Seigo talks life, free software and reinventing the Desktop (ComputerWorld)

I'm for sure not within the target audience of Canonical. :-) If Canonical 
has no (potential) Kubuntu LTS customers then why can't they openly and 
honestly say that instead of spreading something like "we would like to 
sell a Kubuntu LTS product but upstream/the community doesn't support us"?

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Aaron Seigo talks life, free software and reinventing the Desktop (ComputerWorld)

Posted Feb 3, 2008 15:38 UTC (Sun) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

Both situations are not mutually exclusive. The middle ground could be something like "we would like to sell a Kubuntu LTS product but upstream/the community doesn't support us -- to the extent that the product would be profitable". Maybe they would need to hire x additional KDE developers, but the number of expected Kubuntu customers would only pay for x-2. I think it is coherent with what they are saying.

Talking about your projections of the expected number of customers in public is not always a smart thing to do.