>Anyone know someone who can front at least 2 years working capital to get >started and productive?
>From a pure business standpoint, it would be near impossible to pull off. No >one is going to pony up $2,000,000 to start CentOS up as a for-profit company. >Aside from the small point that you would be competing with RedHat using its >own product, think about it in simple financial terms...let's say we charged >each licensee $200/year /machine (and yes at that price we would be competing >with RH directly). We would have to sell 5,000 licenses a year just to break >even. Bring the price point down to take into account the fact that most users >of CentOS can't afford $200/month (or they would probably be using RHEL >now..), and your number of conversions goes up exponentially to make up for >the low sticker price. Aside from that inconvenient truth, also consider that >CentOS does not produce unique products that are protected in any >way/shape/form, there is no way to protect the investment or the business from >disappearing overnight. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
