Ceding ground to FUD [LWN.net]

Ceding ground to FUD

Posted Aug 23, 2011 8:53 UTC (Tue) by jospoortvliet (guest, #33164)
In reply to: Ceding ground to FUD by PaulWay
Parent article: LinuxCon: The world's largest Linux desktop deployment

problem with LTS is that it needs a company to do it. And that company needs to make money. And MS makes darn sure there's not a dime to be made... Both Red Hat and SUSE left the desktop market for precisely that reason: there's no money.

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Ceding ground to FUD

Posted Sep 5, 2011 16:52 UTC (Mon) by n8willis (subscriber, #43041) [Link]

Tangent: In his talk, Griffin said that governments usually preferred to contract out the support to local businesses; same with building the content frameworks and web services that support the deployment. Clearly that does not fit into RH/SUSE's business plans.

But perhaps there is room for consulting & training services from the NorthAmerican/European distros to those local businesses. I'm not clear that they're pursuing that any, but if they did then having someone "on the ground" would also help with educating the decision-makers against the Microsoft argument. But absent certification (or any other potential sales/services), asking the distros to send people to advocate is basically asking them to volunteer charitably. I suspect their answer would be "that's the community's job."

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Ceding ground to FUD

Posted Mar 24, 2012 6:24 UTC (Sat) by jbicha (subscriber, #75043) [Link]

Oh, and Debian makes how much money off their LTS releases?