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Paul,<BR>
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An LLC is not usually publicly traded, is it? <BR>
I have a C Corp and it is employee owned (counting me, it is 100% employee owned).<BR>
I don't think we are the kind of blood-sucking parasites Aaron is fomenting against.<BR>
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I am seriously working up ways to have the company or some collection of companies start doing the stuff for FOSS projects that they are traditionally bad about, like PR, advertising and appealing to the masses who are unused to self-serve at the level to which we are all accustomed. <BR>
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I read an article recently by Red Hat's Business Development manager (I think) that suggested that we focus hard on reliability and value rather than cheap, free stuff, since corporate CIOs expect to pay money for what they get, but reliability and quality are far more important to them, and are easier for them to pitch to the CFO than just "free." <BR>
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Wouldn't it be cool if we had a bunch more people developing the printer drivers and so on to make all distros work smoother out of the box, and wouldn't it be cool if we had more people writing articles about the value and reliability of FOSS software and the security and ease of use? MS and Apple have drummed "user-friendly" into the heads of their users. People feel like the big companies own "user friendly," and they think it actually means something besides "what we are used to." Would anybody be interested in getting completely out of the box and talking about how we could do this? <BR>
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-Wolf<BR>
Atlanta Cloud Technology, Inc<BR>
and<BR>
Sourcefreedom.com <BR>
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<B>From</B>: Paul Cartwright <<A HREF="mailto:Paul%20Cartwright%20%3cale@pcartwright.com%3e">ale@pcartwright.com</A>><BR>
<B>Reply-to</B>: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <ale@ale.org><BR>
<B>To</B>: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <<A HREF="mailto:Atlanta%20Linux%20Enthusiasts%20-%20Yes!%20We%20run%20Linux!%20%3cale@ale.org%3e">ale@ale.org</A>><BR>
<B>Subject</B>: Re: [ale] Bloody MS EULA Changes Effecting Our Choice<BR>
<B>Date</B>: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 05:23:40 -0400<BR>
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On Sun October 17 2010, arxaaron wrote:
> wealthy elitist bloodsucking privateers who
> claim corporate ownership
by definition that would include quite a few members of this list... anyone
who has their own company.. I claim corporate ownership, I have an LLC.
so sue me:-0)
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