Hi I think EMC2 can not be compare to RED HAT software. After price for Red Hat will be too high computer mfg will switch to UBUNTU or next in line Linux distribution. Software EMC2 by them self doesnt have whole much volume. Use EMC2 to apply to each particular job retrofit real machine or build new type of machinery is a core for making profit from EMC2. If one want to learn how to use EMC2 it should be free, but many companies do not want to learn anything! That companies want to job to be done! And here where is money to be made. I think on www.linuxcnc.org need to open special section where one can find the list of companies that ready to take any complicity job in applying EMC2 to particular job. Many small tool mfg will use them, machine shop will know to where to look and to who to call. EMC2 retrofitter can become good brad name.
That what I think Thanks Aram > John Guenther wrote: > >>For whatever my opinion may or may not be worth, I think well enough >>should be left alone. EMC2 seems to be moving along just fine without >>the 'commercial' headaches! It seems to me that EMC2 is being developed >>by some dedicated hard working people that are more interested in making >>it right than in making money from it. Maybe some day development can >>split into a quasi commercial product and an open source product much >>like the Linux world but I am not sure that day has come yet. >> >> > Heh. Thanks for the sentiment. > > Look at the Linux commercial model: > The kernel itself is completely free. Some companies hire people to > make changes they think are good. If the "community" (ie, Linus) thinks > it's good, it gets incorporated into the mainline kernel. If not, the > company has to maintain their own patches to the kernel. > > So a company like RedHat then charges people for documentation, support, > and packaging to pay their programmers. > > A model like that could work fine for EMC2, except that we don't have > anywhere near the userbase of the kernel itself. Luckily, the customers > of "RHEmc megacorp" are used to paying a lot more for their software > than the average joe (who thinks it's free with the computer), so > there's room to hire people with a much smaller customer base. > > It's still quite iffy, as Alex pointed out. You never know how long > people will want to buy expensive programs. > > - Steve > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and > around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save > $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. > 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. > Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
