Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (930 mails)

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> > > > I don't believe that "market share" should be a priority for the
> openSUSE
> > > > project (or, at least, not one of the top priorities).
> > > we need a sufficient marked share to stay alive, and who know what
> > > this will mean 5 years ahead?
> >
> > I don't think that we will need 'market share'. We need to be
> > innovative, we need to be friendly, we need to be reliable and
> > trustful.
> >
> > > From that may come what you call 'market share'.
> Exactly!

I agree ... market share is a measure of popularity (whether your product is
liked and appreciated by your intended "consumers").

 
> > And I am not talking about Novell or SLE, just openSUSE here. It's not
> > about 'earning money'!
> Yet..  (to survive, and to be taken serious, helas money has to be
> generated, at some point, but imho, this is a specific task, not to be
> worried about by devs, or contributors, or users, but: one milon users
> times $ or Euro: 50, makes 50 miljon..., if that would be a year, and it
> would stay the same, it would still be 250 miljon in 5 years..)

I disagree slightly.  We need resources, not necessarily money.  Most of our
resources are given without payment by the community.  Some are paid for by
"sponsors" who get some value in return (reputation, knowledge, information
and understanding, a standard of FLOSS software).  It's useful to receive /
have money where we have unavoidable costs (e.g. producing physical copies
of the distribution), and its useful to ensure our independence from the
sponsors.

As with much on the inter-web thingy, we would be taken seriously by having
a volume of consumers (aka market share).

David

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