<HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2963" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="MARGIN: 4px 4px 1px; FONT: 10pt Tahoma"> <DIV>Friends;</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Another stinker in the pond. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I wanted to know what is the business model</DIV> <DIV>behind ubuntu where $10M are "donated".</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I can understand that the developments can be used</DIV> <DIV>by the profit making organization as in</DIV> <DIV>Fedora by RedHat</DIV> <DIV>OpenSuSE by Novell</DIV> <DIV>OpenSOLARIS by Sun Microsystem.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>If all efforts in Fedora Core/OpenSuSE/ubuntu/SimplyMepis/ . . .. </DIV> <DIV>were concentrated towards "TheLinuxDesktop" THE only project</DIV> <DIV>with concentrated efforts. What could be the result ?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>If done aggressively I am sure ubuntu can take desktop </DIV> <DIV>users by storm. (I have myself given the ubuntu CD to </DIV> <DIV>few of interested people to give try to Linux.)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>See you after weekend.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Regards</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Yagnesh</DIV></BODY></HTML>