Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (265 mails)

[Silviu Marin-Caea <silviu_marin-caea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

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