Administrator schreef:
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.
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 nessesary institutiional talk has been spoken, and the goals have been set.
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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