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Progeny Debian Halts The NOW Project

Posted by Hemos on from the bad-econoomic-times dept.

nicedream writes "Debian Planet is reporting that Progeny is killing the NOW project. " A reader also submitted the actual e-mail from Ian Murdock ? . It appears that the current economic climate has had an adverse effect on Progeny - which is not surprising. Ian's also got some musings on the state of computing/networking, which outline some of the thoughts behind the NOW project.

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  1. Too revolutionary for the market by windi · · Score: 2, Insightful

    IMHO, one reason why Progeny halted NOW is because NOW is pretty revolutionary (a.k.a. a real inovation), and the market isn't used to this.
    The market is used to Microsoft style inovations, meaning repackaging old ideas and selling that at inflated prices.

    Lets hope that the market will change in the next few years, so that something like this will become feasable.

    Until then, we could start an open source project with the same goal.

    With Progeny halting NOW and the failure of Corel Linux, has any commercial product based on Debian ever been succesfull ?

  2. Where does this leave Prodigy? by kingdon · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm all for Linux companies trying to focus on things that will be profitable. We all know there has been a shortage of that.

    As for Prodigy, they have per-incident support (which strikes me as a doable, though not glamorous, business). And they have their pay-for-apt-get thingie (or their version of the Red Hat Network, or whatever you call it). I'm not so much opposed to that concept, it just seems that a lot of people are doing it poorly, rather than actually making the concept work (no experience with the Prodigy one in particular).

    Hope they make it, in one form or another.