'Commercial Partners'

[Eric S. Raymond]

Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com>:
> "Other OS vendors" have a revenue stream to give a cut of in the form of 
> a patent license royalty.  Not quite sure what you are expecting RHAT to 
> do about that wrt Fedora.

You're telling me RHEL isn't making money?
 
> Misrepresenting the actual goals of the project with your personal 
> preference as to what they should be is not arguing for change, it is 
> trying to bamboozle people.

No misrepresentation here.  I've laid out the logic very clearly -- 
Red Hat has a business decision to make about whether it (still)
wants the desktop and what it's prepared to do to get it.  It ties
into a larger issue about what the Linux community needs to do to
thrive under competitive pressure, which *is* a question for Fedora.
 
> I don't see a single reason to accept your dramatic characterizations as 
> accurate.

Well, I've been right about this sort of thing before, and I've
continued to pay attention.  You're living in an industry
significantly shaped by the fact that I got some key market analysis
right and then addressed the implied problem, and a lot of VCs and
CEOs and investment bankers listen *very* respectfully when I talk.

This doesn't make me infallible, of course, but it does mean betting
that I'm wrong this time is not something to do casually.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>