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Re: [opensuse-project] independence
- From: Oddball <monkey9@xxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:04:49 +0200
- Message-id: <4C0E8641.6070003@xxxxxx>
Trifle Menot schreef:
It was MS way of getting rid of serious competition, and Novells to get
some hardneeded bucks....
Full independence means to have resources and fundings to complete an OS
that is taken serious.
Even so unfortunate is the fact that life costs money, and because of
some 'sharks' who want to own all the money, life is becoming more
expensive every day.
Best option was finding a biljonair who wants to 'own' his own software
company, loves to pay all the bills, and who gives all that software
away for free, without stressing up all the employees, who work for
free, because they are 'involved', and don't know what they should do
with their time, except creating the 'newest' software.
In what way is this realistic?
Nothing in the real world is for free, because everybody is brainwashed
to believe and act that way.
So, how to change this 'knowledge' into a 'working' solution?
The community could buy 'shares', and thus provide an amount of money,
gaining influence, feeling more 'responsible', and keep oS 'floating'.
(But as many people, as many opinions, so probably this idea will be
torpedood, as all the others, and nothing will change... )
This would need a lot of planning, but would eventualy attract more
people who want to be involved as soon as 'the word' went out of oS's
independence, and bold struggle for survival.
It would be possible to show the world, there is something else than
working for mere material profit: The 'legacy', and best operating
system the world has ever seen.
But, it would be nessesary to sell the product, and that has always been
the difficult part.
Should the choices than be to get commercial?
I think not in the way other companies do, but making the difference...
Strategies should be developed to restrict 'the plans' from the world as
long as possible.
If the majority of the shares is in 'good' hands, bad decisions can be
opposed.
(a possibility to discuss, at least)
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Enjoy your time around,
Oddball, aka M9.
OS: Linux 2.6.27.19-3.2-default x86_64
Huidige gebruiker: oddball@AMD64x2-sfn1
Systeem: openSUSE 11.1 (x86_64)
KDE: 4.2.1 (KDE 4.2.1) "release 103"
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On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 08:53:31 -0500, "Bryen M. Yunashko"This, unfortunately, is true...
<suserocks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It's not speculation, it's self evident: Novell/Microsoft is repulsive
to other corporate players. Accept it, and recognize that gaining full
independence is essential for overcoming it.
It was MS way of getting rid of serious competition, and Novells to get
some hardneeded bucks....
Full independence means to have resources and fundings to complete an OS
that is taken serious.
Even so unfortunate is the fact that life costs money, and because of
some 'sharks' who want to own all the money, life is becoming more
expensive every day.
Best option was finding a biljonair who wants to 'own' his own software
company, loves to pay all the bills, and who gives all that software
away for free, without stressing up all the employees, who work for
free, because they are 'involved', and don't know what they should do
with their time, except creating the 'newest' software.
In what way is this realistic?
Nothing in the real world is for free, because everybody is brainwashed
to believe and act that way.
So, how to change this 'knowledge' into a 'working' solution?
The community could buy 'shares', and thus provide an amount of money,
gaining influence, feeling more 'responsible', and keep oS 'floating'.
(But as many people, as many opinions, so probably this idea will be
torpedood, as all the others, and nothing will change... )
This would need a lot of planning, but would eventualy attract more
people who want to be involved as soon as 'the word' went out of oS's
independence, and bold struggle for survival.
It would be possible to show the world, there is something else than
working for mere material profit: The 'legacy', and best operating
system the world has ever seen.
But, it would be nessesary to sell the product, and that has always been
the difficult part.
Should the choices than be to get commercial?
I think not in the way other companies do, but making the difference...
Strategies should be developed to restrict 'the plans' from the world as
long as possible.
If the majority of the shares is in 'good' hands, bad decisions can be
opposed.
(a possibility to discuss, at least)
--
Enjoy your time around,
Oddball, aka M9.
OS: Linux 2.6.27.19-3.2-default x86_64
Huidige gebruiker: oddball@AMD64x2-sfn1
Systeem: openSUSE 11.1 (x86_64)
KDE: 4.2.1 (KDE 4.2.1) "release 103"
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