Re: [LAU] arch users?

Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 07:00 +0800, Ray Rashif wrote:
>> 2009/12/4 Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee@email-addr-hidden>
>> On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 09:50 -1000, david wrote:
>> > Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
>> > > On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 08:09 -0500, drew Roberts wrote:
>> > >> On Thursday 03 December 2009 05:04:26 Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
>> > >>>> Oh, I was thinking Golden Arch Linux would be the
>> paid-support version
>> > >>>> of Arch Linux.
>> > >>> Quite difficult to have a 'paid-support' version of a
>> distro that's not
>> > >>> owned/managed by a company =).
>> > >> Yup, but not too difficult to have paid support for a
>> distro that's not
>> > >> owned/managed by a company.Right?
>> > >>
>> > >> all the best,
>> > >>
>> > >> drew
>> > > I guess. Doubt it'd be a good economic prospect in any
>> case, considering
>> > > the user base either:-
>> > > a) doesn't need your help
>> > > b) needs your help but won't pay for it cos "OMGZZ THIS
>> ISN'T WINDOWS
>> > > WHY SHOULD I PAY"
>> > >
>> > > Disclaimer: I use Arch myself, and I know very very few
>> users who fall
>> > > into b). Few isn't none, however =)
>> >
>> > Well, I've bought Linux software in the past when FOSS
>> software couldn't
>> > do what I needed it to, so there are folk who buy Linux
>> software. I even
>> > bought my first Linux distro (CorelLinux).
>> >
>>
>> Yes, I don't argue that purchasing Linux software is
>> off-limits, but
>> that when the entirety of the software is already available
>> free,
>> purchasing support is a much more iffy member for individual
>> desktop
>> users, as broadly divided into the groups mentioned above.
>>
>> Really, the market for paid support is (as I see it) mostly a
>> corporate/governmental thing, and none of those would ever
>> consider Arch
>> Linux and its rolling release in any form =).
>>
>> Wait..wtf are we talking about now? I remember it was something about
>> McDonald's, the M and the A, the Ronald and the Teepee :O
>
> As with all (most?) ML discussions, its gone off on its own tangent =)

But that's what mailing lists are for: to increase the entropy in
communications. ;-)

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