On 11/14/2006 09:41 AM, jdd sur free wrote:
basically you should sell for a big price a cheap product :-). Making this involve cheating :-). Open this should be like playing poker with all cards on the table..;
Well I think that's the fundamental problem with Open Source. It's hard to charge a high price for something other people give away free. You pretty much need to go in the direction of a service model. And everyone knows you can't become a Microsoft or an Oracle that way. Unless of course you get creative and go for some kind of patent protection racket. I think Novell's got a lot of pressure from their board to keep those revenues rising in a way that a service company just plain can't. And maybe to that end they've been messing around with the accounting a bit, or something - banks don't usually come down on companies that hard for missing a filing date. But at the same time, they are supporting employees who ask them tough questions on podcasts. They have links to Novell-critical blogs on their own website. They are letting people like Nat Friedman climb the corporate ladder. Maybe they have a toe in the "new business model" water. I wish they would just tell us what's really up. That's the main thing that bugs me. And if I were a Novell developer I'd be extremely annoyed. On 11/14/2006 03:06 PM, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
Take a look at the IRC log from last week.
http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Status_Meeting_2006-11-08/transcript
That is great. It's what inspired me to write.
There will be an other IRC session. From the list it looks like next week.
Were Mr. Hovsepian and Mr. Jaffe invited? Maybe they should be ;)
I think we all are in a wait and see mode. We hope for the best, expect the worst and take what ever comes.
Ordinarily I'd agree with you. I'm certainly not wiping Suse off my disk. But if I'm choosing amongst Open Source companies to partner with right now, the need to wait and see with Novell pretty much removes them from the short list. Saill saill.white@openlina.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org