Re: Canonical's business model
On 09-Jan-06, 13:52 (CST), Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
> I think that more than one thing can be going on at once.
>
> There are commercial companies that keep things secret for competative
> advantage and *also* contribute other things back to the broader
> community. IBM, for instance, to take a prominant example. I don't
> believe that all of the rhetoric around Canonical is bogus; I think much
> of it is entirely true.
> [etc.]
Russ, if you continue to post reasonable analysis and commentary to
debian-flame^Wdevel, instead of adopting one of two extremes available
for a given war^Wdiscussion, you will be asked to leave.
Steve, hoping the smiley (and appreciation) is obvious.
--
Steve Greenland
The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating
system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the
world. -- seen on the net
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