Hi, Am 25.09.2013 um 16:45 schrieb Dmitriy Nikandrov:
> I hope somewhere in the world exist investor with about $100 mil. to me too :) But he/she did not show up in the past 10 years. Even Canonical did not want to invest their own money for the Ubuntu Edge (except for running the indiegogo campaign). > solve this equation & give the begining to such very new computing > ecosystem, where all components are free & open. But again there is an equation which has no solutions: investor + free&open = 2 I.e. why should someone invest into freedom and openness if it is easier to get a return of investment with closed systems? This would be against fundamental laws of economics. More specifically Venture Capital invests to 50% in patents and 50% into a certain mindset of people. Rarely into ideas. And not in concepts like "freedom". They leave that to polictical discussions. So as you say, we would need a completely different ecosystem where people help each other and free of charge :( Or where people are willing (and able - from well enough paid work...) to pay more than for a closed device. I.e. if not 1 person is investing $100 mil. but 100 mil persons are investing $1. For software (FLOSS) it works because the investment that is needed is very low. Just some spare time and curiousity/knowledge/ingenuity. -- hns _______________________________________________ Replicant mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/replicant
