[CS-FSLUG] 'Can't make money from desktop Linux'

[Marco Tedaldi]

Hello Fred

Fred A. Miller wrote

> 'Can't make money from desktop Linux'
> 
maybe... this excludes servers...

> 'Can't make money from desktop Linux' Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Mark
> Shuttleworth, the guy behind the most popular Linux distro, Ubuntu,
> bursts a bubble during yesterday's press call: "I don't think anyone can
> make money from the Linux desktop...the only way to build business
> around software is with services." Two questions: What services? And who
> will pay?
> 
Services can be many different things. For example support. And that's where the money is. And Companies will pay for support to keep the computers running.
Services can also be Server based stuff. Instead of buying an own server with backup, you buy storage in a save location as a service.
Many other things (online groupware stuff...) are imaginable to be sold as service...

cu

kruemi
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