On Fri, 2011-03-25 at 15:20 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote:
What is the commercial reason to do this then? I understand what
-you-
want - but redhat needs to have a business reason to leverage this -
like RHEL derives from fedora ...
Unless there's a rational business plan it makes no sense to sponsor
this ... think like a businessperson ...
Well... given the demise of Meego, more or less, and the pending demise
of Symbian and the fact that Nokia just signed a deal with the software
devil to use Windows on their handsets, I think there is a huge
opportunity for Redhat to go after the mobile device market. Just look
at the success of Android. A lot of players in the mobile market would
love to partner with someone other than Google.