Messages in this thread | | | From | joe briggs <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Re: Troll Tech [was Re: Sco vs. IBM] (sorry) | Date | Tue, 24 Jun 2003 08:13:20 -0400 |
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Hans - Here's a thought to chew on. I _value_ your software and use it extensively (along with other linux software). Out of necessity I painfully roll my own Debian distro/kernel and flinch _every_ time I use apt to update my boxes (wondering if some damn PAM module is going to hose me). Anyway, the point is, I build video servers that I sell for a profit - it is how I make my living. I am also aware that in reality I am making a living off of the backs of you (ala reiserfs) and others like you. The reason that I use linux is not because its free, but because it takes much less time to develop and maintain my video applications under linux than windows, because I can remotely service and maintain the boxes that I sell, and because linux has proven to be more reliable than the windows os that I used to base my product on. You see, the price is not the issue, its features, performance, and reliability are. So, consider this: YOU roll a DEB-REISER distribution targeted toward system builders such as me, that more smoothly incorporates reisefs than does the woody cd's (and a lot less generic), and then support the reiser-related issues, and I will happily pay you $100 per machine. It is well worth it to me to keep you in business (not that my volume alone would do it, but I am sure that there are a lot of others like me). Don't worry about putting in a licensing agent - honesty really works here. I used to base my product on RedHat and I purchased a copy of the OS for every box I sold - not that a customer would ever look under the hood or even read the docs, but it was my way of supporting the suppliers. I don't use RedHat now because I can't keep up with their release-to-release changes, and I need a distro more turned toward enterprise servers. The point is, I am not alone.
Just a thought.
Joe
On Tuesday 24 June 2003 06:47 am, Stewart Smith wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 10:03:13AM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote: > > Umh, I would not mind something coming along to help me make it past > > October when my cash runs out. Being able to afford a house is too much > > to ask but making payroll would be nice.... Government money has done a > > lot to keep me from going bankrupt. > > May I suggest whacking an icon up with "Donate to ReiserFS" up there? > > Samba and GNOME are two projects which do this and at least get a bit > of funding for it. Check out the samba one, tridge says it does okay > with the updating list of who's donated money - makes it into a bit > of a fun game for donators :) > > You've probably already got the credit card processing infrastructure > around, so it could be minimal effort - with only possible gain. > > I'm sure happy reiser users would be willing to chuck a couple of > bucks your way to ensure further development. > > ---- > Stewart Smith > Vice President, Linux Australia > http://www.linux.org.au (personal: http://www.flamingspork.com) > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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