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until until Canonical can actually make a profit

until until Canonical can actually make a profit

Posted Apr 17, 2008 21:20 UTC (Thu) by wtogami (subscriber, #32325)
In reply to: until until Canonical can actually make a profit by dowdle
Parent article: Red Hat: no desktop products coming

> the are trying to make money, not lose it.  My point was that 
> Red Hat's point was valid... that no one has really made any
> money selling Desktop Linux because the market isn't ready yet

I think this is a misrepresentation or misunderstanding of what Red Hat's blog post said.  It
was business sustainability reasons for Red Hat to choose not to create a "traditional desktop
product for the consumer market".  The blog post said nothing about linux desktop being "not
ready yet".


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