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From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Daniel Phillips <phillips@phunq.net>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	debian developer <debiandev@gmail.com>,
	tux3@tux3.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	corbet@lwn.net
Subject: Re: [Tux3] Current Activities?
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:19:05 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fxbzyco6.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090810132934.GC20471@mit.edu> (Theodore Tso's message of "Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:29:34 -0400")

Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> writes:

> If the goal is to find corporate sponsorship for Tux3, I'd strongly
> encourage you to think harder about a compelling story for why Tux3 is
> so cool that companies should spend money supporting it.  Let me
> gently suggest to you that "it'll have fewer features than btrfs, but
> it will use less memory" is not a particularly compelling story to a
> company's technical and management leadership who is figure out
> spending priorities for next year's budget.  Particularly if the cell
> phone is going to have megabytes of memory to run Java on it anyway;
> and even if it's not running Java, have you seen how much space
> graphical libraries take up these days?  :-)
>
> Again, I'm not saying this to discourage technical people from working
> on Tux3.  But just because you're passionate about a technology,
> doesn't mean that it automatically translate to there being a business
> case to convince companies to invest in that technology.

About sponsorship, I guess Daniel just worried about me. But, it's not
argument on lkml. So, let's stop argument about sponsorship.

Thanks.
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-10 14:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <6dcc37b30904291901m7abdd6d7q6f44b2c248ec48c4@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <200904302049.27235.phillips@phunq.net>
2009-07-31  9:10   ` [Tux3] Current Activities? debian developer
2009-08-01 16:42     ` Daniel Phillips
2009-08-01 22:26       ` Theodore Tso
2009-08-06  7:52       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-08 23:47         ` Daniel Phillips
2009-08-10 12:26           ` debian developer
2009-08-10 13:29           ` Theodore Tso
2009-08-10 14:19             ` OGAWA Hirofumi [this message]
2009-08-10 17:34               ` david

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