Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:43:01 -0500
Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> wrote:
> Perhaps it is something uniquely American, but the key to
> understanding Ron's association is the wine tasting example given in
> the article. As mentioned earlier in the thread, the sex scandal
> mentioned only guaranteed more people would read the article.
I understood it and I'm English. I resent the assumption that only
Americans can see the point and demand that the colonials surrender to
the Imperial Forces of the British Empire immediately... :oP
On a more serious note, I come up against this all the time, although
the main question I'm asked is "I can see it's really good and that it
works really well, I can see that it will save me a lot of money in the
short and long-term, but where does Linux make it's money?" (queue long
conversation about the fact that "Linux" is not a single company, it
doesn't make money, it has no need to make money, it just exists and is
worked on by many people across the globe who make money on the back of
knowing how it works and supporting it).
When I was selling websites, I would say "all the software it runs on
is free, and the site design is £500". People didn't buy it. As soon
as I said, "We can build you a website and host it for £500 with a
monthly fee of £25, we couldn't sell things fast enough.
meh.
Matt.
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