Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:34:38 -0700 (PDT) | From | david@lang ... | Subject | Re: [Tux3] Current Activities? |
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On Mon, 10 Aug 2009, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> 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.
it's not just sponsership, it's also the question of why should I as someone who uses linux in production ever care about Tux3. why would I pick it over ext4, btrfs, etc.
David Lang
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