Messages in this thread | | | From | OGAWA Hirofumi <> | Subject | Re: [Tux3] Current Activities? | Date | Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:19:05 +0900 |
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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>
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