2013/11/28 Michal Hrusecky <mhrusecky@suse.cz>:
jdd - 13:49 28.11.13 wrote:
Le 28/11/2013 13:41, Michal Hrusecky a écrit :
jdd - 13:27 28.11.13 wrote:
how is red hat living?
Good. And SUSE is living good as well. These companies don't depend on what kids think nowadays that is cool, but on what people need to get work done ;-)
good news. but is this more than server market? is desktop still important enough as linux client?
My personal opinion - companies don't care about Linux desktop, money are in server, cloud... But where SUSE/RedHat is going is not necessarily the same direction as openSUSE, but we can share part of the way ;-)
Didn't follow the whole thread. Michal don't say that companies don't care about Linux Desktop. The reason that don't care is because there's not enough market (end users) to invest. MS on the other side (and a huge factory around MS), invest on users. What I mean is if we want to companies to care about Linux desktop AND attract more contributors, we MUST increase the base customers (end users). So developers will contribute-build packages for Linux (and openSUSE), there will be a gap on the market for Linux companies to invest. For me a good example is Ubuntu. They made a base with lot of users (when the server, cloud services were out of their focus). They attracted developers-companies (Valve tested everything on Ubuntu) because they had market where to sell their products. After they made their brand, they changed the GUI and many "fanboys" followed. Now they increase on servers, cloud, tablet PCs, phones etc. Since openSUSE is community "product" it's almost the same thing. I mean we should MAKE more users. So some of them stay end users, some become developers. Also many developers will join to create their "programs" for our distro. And everyone is happy!!!
this is not only to speak. it's to define our market we now target power users, but in this are geeckos, if geeks go away...
not sure all this tablet stuff is a real permanent thing, but I have to say I was pretty interested last saturday seeing a tablet running kde!!
what is fun? what is fun enough to attract new geeks and how can we have this in openSUSE?
jdd
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