On 03/28/2011 11:35 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Rahul Sundaram
<metherid(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> The only people who can realistically target tablets are the ones with
> commercial backing and a business plan. It is not a market where a
> volunteer community can easily thrive in. It requires custom built
> kernels, patching all over the stack etc and since Red Hat is not
> interested, it is unlikely to happen IMO.
If you shoot down the idea from the start, obviously it won´t happen.
On the contrary, I have no impact on any actual outcome.
I think a team of 4-5 people could buy the 2 or 3 most popular
tablet
models, or at least the ones getting the most press reports (I´d stay
away from Apple)... HP, RIM, Samsung, and build Fedore for those.
You grossly underestimate the amount of work it would take. Even a team
of 4 or 5 dedicated people working full time on such a project would be
barely scratching the surface
For me, it´d be a good promotion for the OS and brand mindshare,
even
if the firm doesn´t directly make money of it. Hint: provide a
"donations" button.
And one day, if the project makes good progress, tablet makers might
even decide to preload Fedora on their tablets as an option, and THEN
RedHat can charge the firm for support and continued development.
But nothing of this would happen until someone does the first step...
Red Hat is in the business of enterprise support. Tablets are a
entirely different market and one that Red Hat has shown zero interest
in it and yes, talk is cheap.