Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (930 mails)

[Oddball <monkey9@xxxxxx>]

Oddball schreef:
> Administrator schreef:
>   
> > > Money, attracts money... which does not make money 'a good thing'...
> > > Money simply makes it easier to reach 'market', because good commercials
> > > and broadcasttime cost money: about 30% of the investment, to be exact....
> > > One thing is for sure:the foundation needs as much money as it can get,
> > > not meaning that the 'wrong people for the job' should be concerned
> > > about it.
> > > As part of the strategies, money realy *has* to be involved.
> > > I seriously do think someone with a real understanding of money should
> > > be approached when the smoke has cleared, and all necessary institutional
> > > talk has been spoken, and the goals have been set.
> > >     
> > >       
> > I can see that working ... it would make someone's reputation creating a
> > business model for FLOSS which makes money, and that should be good
> > incentive, apart form the pro-bono-publicum aspect.  All we need is someone
> > with a real understanding of money who's prepared to invest some of their
> > time and expertise into creating something new for their and our benefit.
> >
> > Anyone know (or know of) someone like that?
> >
> > David
> >
> >   
> >     
> What i feel as a very good starting point is a post from Carlos Rebeiro,
> i quote:
>   
> > I'm not sure if is here the correct place to talk about some openSUSE
> > government strategy, then I'll let my points here. If I made a mistake,
> > please someone guide the following point to new threat. 
> >
> > Brasil government have FINANCIAL INCENTIVES to companies that push
> > opensource to the table and invest on it. I don't know how we will work
> > on this segment, but we need to do something I think, maybe have a
> > dedicated guy (could be worldwide * but is better be a local one) to
> > take care of this critical and important kind of marketshare,
> > government.
> > I also dont' know about other countries but in Brazil, red hat (as
> > fedora), and ubuntu both  have their dedicated guys taking care for
> > government.
> >
> > see you around
> > CarlosRibeiro
> >     
>
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Apart from this above, in holland more and more government
agencies/facilities, schools, use open document standard, and linux more
and more finds its way into there: the tax- office also makes it
possible to give up your income via a linux tarbal or installable linux
app. So as a Foundation, that is non profit, it is more easy to get to
the considerable funds that are available to develop proper
infrstructure to use linux based os.

A totaly other aspect i want to mention is, that for most 'normal'
people, something that doesn't cost money, is 'no good'. They think
like: Much money: Wow good! (Ferrari, Maserati, Rolls royce, Mercedes..)
But the ones that drive a ford, are content with it. Most people think
that when you paid for something, it is reliable, you get 'guarantee'.
That is the reason why oS-distro should cost money (for the masses), to
be trustworthy. If this is a principle that works, and it does, mo is to
just use it.
To be part of the 'real world', one has to embrace the 'language' of it:
Money talks.

Next to that, it must be easy to learn to use it. A treshold for many
people is that they would have to 'learn something new', which costs
time, which they think they don't have. In reality people don't trust
themselves with computers.

M$ share is considerable in office terms: all that people are used to
work with, should be compatible...
The way to open standards has to be paved first, luckily for oS is that
it is not the only team with that desire.. ;-)

So, an easy way to a video that shows how to set-up, and what happens is
vital.
It could be part of the comercial campain.

This all, after knowing the distro is ready for the masses: stabil,
reliable, thrustworthy, online-help, etc.

People have to be 'teased' to use a distro, so create trailers that show
why to use it.

But only *after* the distro is ready for mass distribution.
Which probably will take some time, but hopefully not too much..
That is: IF is choosen for this model...



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Enjoy your time around,


Oddball, aka M9.


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