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Re: OT: 'usability' hype
by Aaron J. Seigo on Wednesday 01/Mar/2006, @00:34

> but we need *money* to make the last push

yes, allowing people to concentrate on things full time can certainly help a lot.

of course, it's not a magic bullet, however. there are projects out there that received 7 figures and never produced much to show for that. it needs planning, execution, yadda yadda. all the obvious stuff =) </disclaimer>

there isn't a lot of money being made on open source desktop stuff right now. there is *some* but not a lot. and so funding is pretty scarce as well, no matter where you look. it is better than it was, but we're certainly not on the gravy train yet ;) i think there is room for some innovative business models that target non-enterprise markets that could help bring cash flow into the desktop.

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Re: OT: 'usability' hype
by Segedunum on Wednesday 01/Mar/2006, @14:41

"i think there is room for some innovative business models that target non-enterprise markets that could help bring cash flow into the desktop."

Hmmm. Like what?

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Re: OT: 'usability' hype
by reihal on Wednesday 01/Mar/2006, @22:58

Schools, universities, administrations?

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Re: OT: 'usability' hype
by Segedunum on Thursday 02/Mar/2006, @04:10

"Schools, universities, administrations?"

That's not a businbess model - just possible, potential customers. However, customers and revenue bring up interesting issues.

With what will revenue be brought in and who is going to use and keep that revenue? The distributors, or KDE or other open source projects?

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