Re:The End of Windows
by pjmlp on Monday April 02, 2018 @12:54PM
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Hardly anyone can live from donations or bounties.
Try to get a mortage, pay a monthly rent, pay the kids school,.... just with donations.
One needs a regular source of income.
Desktop users are usually not keen to pay for consulting, trainigs or documentation. Rather just paying once.
Vendors that have pushed for web solutions get a constant revenue, but that solution makes the desktop irrelevant thus regular users see no benefit in running e.g. Chrome in other OS that wasn't already installed on the hardware that they bought.
Additionally such hardware is as proprietary as it ever was, even if built with a FOSS stack, as no one gets the sauce running on the server.
Try to get a mortage, pay a monthly rent, pay the kids school,.... just with donations.
One needs a regular source of income.
Desktop users are usually not keen to pay for consulting, trainigs or documentation. Rather just paying once.
Vendors that have pushed for web solutions get a constant revenue, but that solution makes the desktop irrelevant thus regular users see no benefit in running e.g. Chrome in other OS that wasn't already installed on the hardware that they bought.
Additionally such hardware is as proprietary as it ever was, even if built with a FOSS stack, as no one gets the sauce running on the server.