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

[Fred A. Miller]

Marco Tedaldi wrote:
> 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...

I agree, but then, I didn't write the article. ;)

Fred

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