On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 7:52 AM, Martin Langhoff <[email protected]> wrote: > *Big Bold Disclaimer - these opinions are strictly Martin's. No > statement here is formal, I'm just waiting for a timing-bug to rear > its ugly head.* > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:30 PM, Edward Cherlin <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:25 AM, David Farning <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> I am convinced that the correct business model for Sugar Labs, will be >>> a combination of licensing the Sugar and Sugar Labs brands to partners >>> and donations.
>> I am convinced that the Red Hat and IBM models are more relevant. > > Ed, have you been a customer of RH or IBM recently? RedHat's current > model is pay-high-support-license-per-machine-to-play. It works great > for their target market, and it's a very valid (and profitable!) > model, but I see no overlap with SL's space. Maybe their old model > could be interesting to look at, but marginally so. > > And yet, RH built a reasonably strong community. IBM's model is high > prices for custom development and support, highly restricted, and zero > community. The big contracts (with Ministries of Education and aid agencies) is the only element I am suggesting we copy. In contrast, however, _we_ can offer low cost per seat and continuous improvement through the community of teachers and students. > cheers, > > > > m > -- > [email protected] > [email protected] -- School Server Architect > - ask interesting questions > - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first > - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff > -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
