From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CzaIS-0008D2-2D for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 07:53:20 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CzaIJ-00087R-79 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 07:53:11 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CzaIG-00083Z-T3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 07:53:09 -0500 Received: from [212.250.162.15] (helo=mta05-winn.mailhost.ntl.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CzZtG-0004Lv-Dj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 07:27:18 -0500 From: Julian Seward Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] KQemu logic and marketing goals Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:27:14 +0000 References: <420BEEB7.1010906@bellard.org> <420C3F82.5020902@info9.net> <200502111054.31681.jm@poure.com> In-Reply-To: <200502111054.31681.jm@poure.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200502111227.14702.jseward@acm.org> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, jm@poure.com On Friday 11 February 2005 09:54, Jean-Michel POURE wrote: > I don't understand the logic behind KQemu. > Fabrice, can you tell us more about your marketing projects ? I think it's clear -- qemu is a lot of work and after a while, doing a day job and running an open-source project on the side is just impossible, if you want to have any kind of a life too. I suspect Fabrice would like to be able to work on Qemu full time, and so it has to generate money somehow. This seems eminently reasonable to me. A possible alternative is to convince some open-source company to hire Fabrice and have him work full-time on qemu. Just my E 0.02, J