From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755256AbZHJOTL (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:19:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754846AbZHJOTL (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:19:11 -0400 Received: from mail.parknet.ad.jp ([210.171.162.6]:46486 "EHLO mail.officemail.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754946AbZHJOTK (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:19:10 -0400 From: OGAWA Hirofumi To: Theodore Tso Cc: Daniel Phillips , Ingo Molnar , Jeff Garzik , debian developer , tux3@tux3.org, LKML , corbet@lwn.net Subject: Re: [Tux3] Current Activities? References: <6dcc37b30904291901m7abdd6d7q6f44b2c248ec48c4@mail.gmail.com> <200908010942.52623.phillips@phunq.net> <20090806075246.GA6860@elte.hu> <200908081647.21279.phillips@phunq.net> <20090810132934.GC20471@mit.edu> Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:19:05 +0900 In-Reply-To: <20090810132934.GC20471@mit.edu> (Theodore Tso's message of "Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:29:34 -0400") Message-ID: <87fxbzyco6.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Anti-Virus: Kaspersky Anti-Virus for MailServers 5.5.10/RELEASE, bases: 24052007 #308098, status: clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Theodore Tso 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