On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 05:39:43PM +0300, Nico Revin wrote: > You know... The only thing I can say for sure is that FreeBSD and *buntu are > both great systems. But the problem is in management. Why do you think > Ubuntu became so popular? Mark sold his business and had a great credit to > fire a start-up. So he did. > > And what had he done first? He bought all of us. Show me a person who DID > NOT got ubuntu via ship-it system? It was really for free!!!
I didn't, actually. It's faster to burn it to CD -- and it didn't take me long to realize that no matter how free it was, it wasn't what I wanted out of my OS. I agree that taking that approach has spurred on adoption rates, though, even if it didn't work on me in particular. > > Marketing is evil. But without it you can lose the market share, respect and > money... The economic model of the open-source projects is very weak. Mark > demonstrates that it can be efficient. I disagree that it's "weak". The problem is that it's competing with legislation and entrenched corporate interests that have a lot of market clout and paid lobbyists fighting against any rapid changes in market realities. Visibility is a pretty handy tool for resisting those influences of course -- and that's what Shuttleworth is bringing to Ubuntu (as you've pretty much pointed out): visibility. None of that or anything related to it means that the "economic model of the open-source projects is very weak," though. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Baltasar Gracian: "A wise man gets more from his enemies than a fool from his friends." _______________________________________________ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
