>On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Don Stanley <dstanley1...@gmail.com>wrote:
I'd say its 3 cents with interest. > > If you want to see an example of the core group going commercial, take a > look at > Red Hat and their resulting open source Linux effort "Fedora". > from my hart. > Those who wish to go commercial are already doing so with no disruption to > the > EMC2 effort (only enhances it). > > I suggest anyone who wants to go commercial with EMC and sell to large > companies or manufactures, get a large capital reserve so your customer > can see how to recover if your system doesn't work. > Then advertise what you can do for their new system, or their broken > controllers. > And this will improve EMC tremendously, since we now have to actually listen to real live customers The results of that discussion wiil ultimately feed back into EMC. Everybody will happily make money, a core group of happy customers will come in existence, software will get better, donations will be made, etc. People don't own companies; companies own people; and the Government owns > them both. Just look at the companies payroll Tax records. > And I would say the honourable investor that started off this thread was uh... perhaps looking to own some people. Commercial pressure from customers has improved a product time and again, financial pressure from the investors rarely. Regards, Jan de Kruyf. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Oracle to DB2 Conversion Guide: Learn learn about native support for PL/SQL, new data types, scalar functions, improved concurrency, built-in packages, OCI, SQL*Plus, data movement tools, best practices and more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
