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- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: MONEY + Linux
- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!think.com!unixland!rmkhome!rmk
- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 04:14:47 GMT
- Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Message-ID: <9212182315.13@rmkhome.UUCP>
- References: <1992Dec17.033917.2963@midway.uchicago.edu> <BzEyD3.23J.2@cs.cmu.edu>
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- In article <BzEyD3.23J.2@cs.cmu.edu> ddj+@cs.cmu.edu (Doug DeJulio) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec17.033917.2963@midway.uchicago.edu> goer@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >>Can Linux go on forever without some commercial support? I mean,
- >>it's hard to see anything as useful that's maintained by folks that
- >>aren't doing it for a living - at least the size of a 386 UNIX
- >>implementation. Is there some way that a useful remuneration path
- >>can be arranged. E.g. could universities be site-licensed, thereby
- >>gaining the right to have attention paid to their bugs and config-
- >>uration problems, and to receive regular updates?
- >
- >A commercial support organization like this already exists! This is
- >the sort of thing Cygnus Support exists for. A university could,
- >right now, contact Cygnus about a support contract for Linux.
- >Individuals are also free to provide the same service. Are you saying
- >you think there needs to be a single central source for such support?
- >Why?
- >
- >Does anyone from Cygnus want to comment on this? Does anyone from
- >Cygnus read comp.os.linux?
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- From what I understand, this is how Cygnus would do it:
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- 1. Get a specific SLS release of Linux.
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- 2. Fine tune it and fix bugs to their satisfaction.
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- 3. Sell the release for some minimal price or give it away.
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- 4. Charge $1000 per year for a support contract.
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- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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