Dave Whitinger announces LinSight

UuCon writes "On LinuxPR.com there is announcement about Co-Founder of Linux Today, Dave Whitinger has announced LinSight. A "Powerful, artificially intelligent network of websites will provide world-class service to the Linux community." Funny thing that the first member of the team listed is Elton Wells, who has "left his position as Program Manager of Developer Tools at Microsoft to join LinSight". "

Comments

Business Model

[chazR]

Does anybody know what the business model is? People of this calibre are going to want some return from their efforts. If they charge for access, a lot of people are going to be annoyed. They could try to support it with advertising, but that presents it's own problems.

Alternatively, they could make the resource freely available and charge a lot for consultancy.

Incidentally, however much you dislike Microsoft, their developer support (MSDN etc) has always been good. A significant part of their success is based on making it easy to develop software for their platforms. A similar quality resource for Linux in one location could provide a tremendous boost. Companies considering ports from other platforms would certainly see a single point for Linux development resources as a major benefit.

I wish them well.

Re:Rat from a sinking ship?

[Anonymous Coward]

Please people, don't jump down the guy's back just because he worked for Microsoft. And don't assume he can't know anything about Linux because he worked at Microsoft. I have to mess around with Linux at home because I'm forced to use Windows at work and I've become pretty knowledgable. Maybe he was running a home network running on linux, or perhaps running a business based on linux.

The point is, judge the guy by what he does. Not by where he used to work.

Program Manager?

[/dev/kev]

This guy used to be a Program Manager at MS?
Didn't they get rid of that thing after Windows 3.1?

:)