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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [semi-OffTopic] UserLinux
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Tom Lord |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [semi-OffTopic] UserLinux |
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Thu, 18 Dec 2003 09:33:15 -0800 (PST) |
> From: Andrew Suffield <address@hidden>
> I think you've missed the point entirely.
I don't think so but then I also think that the whitepaper is a bit
self-contradictory as to what, exactly, the point is.
Just to be clear, though: I'm not out to _refute_ the proposal. I'm
out to _complete_ the proposition it makes. I don't think Bruce has
gotten major things wrong -- I think he has just left some fundamental
questions unanswered.
> UserLinux (ironic name) is about doing all the stuff that's only
> needed at enterprise level. It's not about "engineering".
[...]
> The UserLinux effort is primarily about all the *other* stuff
> that you need to make a successful enterprise
> product. Marketing, training, certification, support,
> distribution infrastructure, etc.
Every item in your "*other*" list has a significant engineering
component. Moreover, they have significant engineering components
that in successful "traditional" businesses wind up being tightly
integrated with the engineering processes that produce the base
system. What I don't see in the whitepaper is any substantive plan
about what form those processes take in this new economic paradigm.
-t