Re: [opensuse-project] Slogan proposal: openSUSE - Not for my mom, but for tech enthusiasts
When I say Canonical are not doing the same about the support, I mean about the updates. However, they offer you support for each installation so, if you have 50 Ubuntu installed, you will pay 50 support contracts, but that does not include the updates, that are free and open for everyone, and they have one single distro. At least it is an interesting model, isn't it?
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I think it is a misinterpretation of what the cost of SLED is to call it licensing. I think it has been and be should be marketed as long term support. If you purchase a "subscription" to SLED you get a year of patches\updates and online support for the worlds most stable, innovative, enterprise ready desktop, all of 50 $ US. Still sounds like the best OS deal going to me, even though my personal HD is loaded with 10.2. ;)
If you have to purchase a "subscription" for every SLED you have, that is very similar to a license. If you have 50 installations, you will be paying for the same updates 50 times, when you already have the source code. Moreover, the community is not getting those updates, at least not directly. So again, there are two distributions and the Gnome guys may have to work double: work for SLED, and for OpenSuSE. I know RedHat is doing the same, and a lot of others in the open source business, so maybe is the way to make it profitable. However, Canonical is not doing that with Ubuntu. We will see if they get successful with that model. At least, that is the vision from an outsider. greetings, jordi massaguer pla ______________________________________________ LLama Gratis a cualquier PC del Mundo. Llamadas a fijos y móviles desde 1 céntimo por minuto. http://es.voice.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org ______________________________________________ LLama Gratis a cualquier PC del Mundo. Llamadas a fijos y móviles desde 1 céntimo por minuto. http://es.voice.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 02 May 2007 04:57:37 pm Jordi Massaguer wrote:
When I say Canonical are not doing the same about the support, I mean about the updates. However, they offer you support for each installation so, if you have 50 Ubuntu installed, you will pay 50 support contracts, but that does not include the updates, that are free and open for everyone, and they have one single distro. At least it is an interesting model, isn't it?
It might be "interesting" but viable, I don't think so. If I had 50 desktops with Ubuntu and I'd need support, I'd buy support for 1 desktop. I don't know how Mark Shuttleworth intends to pull this Ubuntu thing off. Maybe he has a genius plan, why not. He succeeded with thawte. But so far, the plan looks like it's still in the "spend money, earn next to nothing" phase. Just lovable. And let's not forget that Ubuntu doesn't have any certifications, with anything. Those matter in a lot of places. But it does seem to have quite a success on the desktop and that does not need any certifications. Desktop == mind share, so SUSE should play this game too. I'd say we just have to see what will Mark do to make some money out of this. Returning to the thread start, yeah, "not for moms" was a very dumb thing to say. Yes it's for moms too, very much, as long as someone else installs and configures it for them. Because this happens with ALL the operating systems for moms. Just show me 1 mom who installed and configured her Windows Home Edition. They don't do that. They don't know what "installing" means. However, a Linux machine will not get chock full of spyware and malware nor turn into a spam-sending zombie. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org
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