> -----Original Message----- > From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 10 January 2006 21:15 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way > > > On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:00:17 +0000 (WET), Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > Seriously, does someone find the talk in the site somewhat > > style-impaired? My limited domain of the English language > doesn't make > > me the best judge, but some phrases make me wonder about > how young the > > webmaster is, assuming that English is his first language... > > I thought it had been written by someone who had just been on > a marketing > or management course. Plenty of buzz phrases with no real content.
And a p*ss poor management course at that. Consider this: "The traditional model for operating systems is a company request model. Saviour Linux uses a user request model in which users dictate what the operating system turns into instead of a business committee. Now, the users decide what will be, not businessmen." In any business model users (ultimately) generate demand, which if deemed worthy may entice suppliers to provide products/services. In this example the suppliers are (ultimately) the programmers and their decisions are based on manifested user demand and which is evaluated by programmers' personal preferences. The evaluation of what is worthy to spend development time on is a business decision (programming time has a value whether rewarded by monetary means or not). By virtue of the fact that programmers are making business decisions they are acting as the aforementioned businessmen. If many programmers join a development effort and make joint decisions they form, yep, that's right: "a business committee"! What he is implying but not articulating in his paragraph is the not-for-profit aspect of the business model. That does not change the argument. Decisions of value remain business decisions irrespective of the accounting treatment (distribution) of economic profit. It may after all not be a scam - just a superficially thought through uni project . . . Just my 2c's. -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
