On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 1:47 AM, Henne Vogelsang <hvogel@opensuse.org> wrote:
Hey,
On 17.06.2012 22:02, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
Briefly, you want to invest in *growing* markets and capture market share of *paying customers*, not *users*.
How do you pay for openSUSE? :)
Henne
I'm guessing ultimately the paychecks for non-volunteers come from the corporate side. And if openSUSE makes a major advance in a growing market and achieves wider use, ultimately that advance will make it into SUSE Linux Enterprise. I'm not an accountant or attorney, and I certainly have no clue how different the business environments are between Germany and the USA. We aren't a foundation like Debian or Gentoo as I understand it - we're a community supported by and supporting a corporation with some set of rules dictated by laws of various nations and by "gentlemens' agreements" on how the two entites co-operate. So are the other two most popular distros, Fedora and Ubuntu. -- Twitter: http://twitter.com/znmeb Computational Journalism Server http://j.mp/compjournoserver Data is the new coal - abundant, dirty and difficult to mine. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org