| Date | Fri, 21 Feb 2003 21:05:14 -0800 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: Minutes from Feb 21 LSE Call |
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On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 08:32:30PM -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > > "fixing it", huh? Your "fixes" may be great for your tiny segment of > > the market but they are not going to be welcome if they turn Linux into > > BloatOS 9.8. > > They won't - the maintainers would never allow us to do that.
The path to hell is paved with good intentions.
> > Really? How about some figures? You'd need HUGE profit margins to > > justify your position, how about some actual hard cold numbers? > > I don't have them to hand, but if you think anyone's making money on > PCs nowadays, you're delusional (with respect to hardware).
Let's see, Dell has a $66B market cap, revenues of $8B/quarter and $500M/quarter in profit.
Lots of people working for companies who haven't figured out how to do it as well as Dell *say* it can't be done but numbers say differently. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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