[CS-FSLUG] LINUX COMMUNITY WANTS MORE SAY IN OS DIRECTION

[Norbert Bollow]

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N. Thompson <n.thomp at sasktel.net> wrote:

> So you're involved in some way with DotGNU then? ;-)

yes :-)

Since your comment sounds like you've heard of DotGNU before,
I'll take the opportunity and ask you: How do you feel and
think about this project?

(We need to get better at promoting the project and communicating
about it's goals, and for that it's helpful to know how we're
currently perceived.)

> >There is no problem, but the money doesn't go to companies like Sun
> >anymore. The money goes to small companies.  That's a good thing
> >(as long as you aren't Sun or Microsoft :-)
> 
> Very true but companies are driven by two things, the personal agendas 
> of the people in power at the company and collecting up wealthy, I can 
> see IBM liking Linux in the long run since they're making lots of money 
> off their patents and don't really need to make that many products any 
> more but Sun who is not financially secure like IBM will always have 
> that desire to amass more wealth.

Yes, the decision-makers in corporations generally have a
strong desire to "amass more wealth", and as a key strategy
for that they're into building corporate empires.  However I
believe that this age of human and economic empires is ending,
just like God's word says in Dan 2:44.

Blessings,
Norbert.

- -- 
Founder & Steering Committee member of DotGNU, see http://dotgnu.org/
Free Software Business Strategy Guide   --->  http://FreeStrategy.info
Norbert Bollow, Weidlistr.18, CH-8624 Gruet (near Zurich, Switzerland)
Tel +41 1 972 20 59        Fax +41 1 972 20 69       http://norbert.ch

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