GNU/Linux distributions and commerce (was: Re: [ox-en] Fwd from Martin Hardie)
- From: Stefan Merten <smerten oekonux.de>
- Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 23:19:36 +0200
Hi!
5 days ago geert lovink wrote:
http://beta.kainx.org/journals/view/content/729
[A rant about RedHat dropping the consumer distribution in favor of
Fedora. At the end contains an ad for the guys own distribution of
GNU/Linux.]
Actually I found the move of RedHat rather interesting and if you
listened to people from RedHat then years ago they told you that the
consumer distribution doesn't return much money - if at all. So for a
capitalist corporation it was just a normal and logical move and I do
not really understand why someone rants about this.
What I find more interesting here is that capitalist corporations
helped GNU/Linux to flourish but they were
* not able to make useful profit from it at least for a good part of
the market share
* the supply with distributions didn't stop even when capitalist
corporations withdrew from the market
To me this proves Oekonux theory that for software the Free mode is
simply better and more useful than capitalist mode. The development of
Debian during the past years is another, and even bigger proof for
this. Actually some years ago I said somewhere that when Oekonux
theory is right we will see such a development. Sounds like a litmus
test to me :-) .
Mit Freien Grüßen
Stefan
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