Le dimanche 17 juin 2012 à 21:54 -0600, Kevin Fenzi a écrit :
On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 23:21:14 -0400 (EDT)
Jay Sulzberger <jays(a)panix.com> wrote:
> I think 50 million dollars toward buying, and properly arranging
> the UEFI, of several lots of x86 computers would indeed solve
> part of the problem you point out.
>
> Why not?
Why? 50million dollars is a big order, but I don't see how this would
change MicroSoft's mind, or the vendors who still wish to sell Windows
8 client certified systems.
Just to put thing in perspective, for 50 millions $, that would mean
around 6 new laptop for each Red hat employees. ( in fact, I think more,
or with better hardware, due to bulk pricing ).
So of course, the question is "what to do with them", and then this
become "resell them", ( and so that mean "become a online hardware
vendor" ( with all the associate cost, like taxes, etc )) or keep them
( that mean in 3/4 years, the money is lost ).
Out of curiosity, what would be different about these machines you
propose?
Secure boot off by default?
Secure boot completely removed?
> What does Red Hat have to lose?
50 million dollars?
Again, to put thing in perspective, that mean budget sponsoring for 8000
FUDCON
( based on
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Zurich_2010_Budget ),
or if we take 73K as the average pay for a software engineer in the US,
around 650 software engineers.
Again, if we take around 1100 commiters on the kernel
(
http://lwn.net/Articles/373405/ ), and 10% coming from Red Hat, that
mean spending 6 time more than what Red hat pay on kernel hacker.
I am sure that we could continue endlessly to show how much that's quite
a lot of money better spent elsewhere. Cause money spent buying laptop
is not money spent writing code.
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Michael Scherer