You have to get the distos to include the software somehow. And yes PopCap would eventually move in but it would give a small company a chance to be noticed before PopCap rolled in. Your right about Steam and windows but by giving the distros part of the revenue stream you are helping the distros to make some money and at the same time giving them a reason to put the store software into their system and not try and reinvent the wheel themselves. It is a lot like cooperative advertising money. Of course FOSS would still be free or you could offer a donate options. Imagine what Gimp could do if everybody that downloaded the latest version gave them a dollar? And frankly most distos already provide a huge benefit to their users to be worth a small precentage.
Funny but I don't want my OS to take advantage of the latest CPU. I want my applications to take take advantage of the CPU. Every cycle and byte the OS uses is taken from your applications.
"First, Linux is a kernel ( and its not easy to pare it down while still having it work across variety of HW )." Well if they would move a lot of the device drivers into user space that would help a lot. You could dynamically load them when needed.
That is why I find Xbuntu, Android, and even OS/X so interesting. They really seem to be trying to reverse that trend. Xbuntu, Puppy, DSL, and Zenwalk all offer a usable Linux desktop on what is really a tiny system. Android runs on a cell phone size system as does OS/X on the iPhone. Take an iPhone and put a keyboard and a bigger screen and you would have a very functional system. Sometimes less is more.
Not always. There is an advantage to a small market. For one thing there isn't a PopCap to compete with. Making it easy to market is a big step. If every Linux user has an option to buy your $5 game you may be shocked at how many will. If you don't have to make a box, CDs, and ship them you will be shocked how much money you can make selling $5 games. A system that might really work well would be to split the profits like this. 75% goes to the author. 10% of the sale goes to the distro. 15% of the sale goes to the group that runs the store.
Yes it does. 1. a small micro controller uses very little power. Modern power supplies use some power just to run themselves. You will use less power to run the main power supply for a second to charge a supper cap and then power it off than it would to use the main power supply to power the micro controller.
So do it in the back ground while you watch TV. They make those what a week or more in advance? If you haven't watched in a week then at some late hour when power is cheap it can power up for a second and up date the channel guide while it recharges the super cap.
Why the heck does a TV need to download the time or background data or Boot up? For the remote you could just have a very low power pic listen for the remote and turn the the set. user a super cap to run it and every few days if you don't use the TV have it power it's self up and charge the cap.
That is the simple answer. There are some other issues that you may have to deal with. 1. Will all your current documents work with OO.org, including spreadsheets. 2. How many documents do you get from outside?
OO is really good to be honest. We got a DocX document sent to my office. OO.org opened it just fine when none of our versions of Office would. Saved us from getting the latest and greatest version of Office.
Yea your right. Notice I was talking about casual games think PopCap not Valve. Before people port top games to Linux they will have to have a market. Anybody with a brain knows that. But casual games are not that dependent on Direct3D/DirectX. If the Linux does get a lot more market share then maybe middleware will show up for the Linux then more high end games.
You got it. But you also need to make it pretty, have a way for customers to review and rate the software, and let the author make money. Just add in music and video as well and you now have a complete ecosystem. No need to get your programs into Walmart and BestBuy. All of a sudden you now have complete ecosystem. And the customer will know that the software they get will work. The other thing is and I really hate to say it is that it must be pretty.
Your right but marketing is more than commercials. Everybody knows about Linux. The real issue I see is still the lack of a way to "sell" software. There really isn't a good way to sell software for Linux. I still say an ITunes like app store for Linux is the missing piece. Throw in media as well and get people selling software. The funny thing I always hear is that any simple program will just be copied by the FOSS community. It may but it really doesn't matter. Bejeweled, AstrPop, and Tetris all show that a simple fun program will sell. If every distro came with an iTunes/Steam like client then you would see more games and good software for Linux.
Also Hulu, CBS.com, and goodness knows what else. Yes Flash is a good reason. Yes it wouldn't be an issue if Flash available as FOSS but it isn't and it is an issue. If they could just add Bluetooth, ir, and maybe GPS and still hit the price point it would be great. With Bluetooth you could add wireless keyboards and mice, IR would allow you to use it as super universal remote, and GPS is simple enough. Okay IR could be dropped but it is really cheap.
People seem to forget that I did put diversity as the top one. I just find it odd that both are Indian-American and not just one. If both here Irish-American, German-American, or Chinese-American it would be just as interesting. It isn't that any of them are Indian American it is all of them just happen to come from that small minority.
Two Indian born CTOs are the two top runners. Is this a statment about. 1. Diversity? 2. The lack of US citizens going into the tech sector. 3. Stereotyping?
Me I would vote for Vivek Kundra. I think he would see things from a customers point of view vs a vendors point of view.
I have to agree with you. And yes an Exchange replacement is really what is needed next. Also needed is integration with Blackberry, iPhone, Palm Pre, and Android phones. Heck I wish I could get a Linux version of iTunes. And yes I like my iPod Touch a lot.
Well in Florida a much more common system uses heat recovery to heat your hot water. Heating costs in south Florida are close to zero so you only really need to worry about cooling. Of course I did know somebody that did have one. The replaced it with a standard heat pump because of the cost. Their heat pump fried when somebody mowing the lawn hit the well head and put a crack in it.
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You have to get the distos to include the software somehow. And yes PopCap would eventually move in but it would give a small company a chance to be noticed before PopCap rolled in.
Your right about Steam and windows but by giving the distros part of the revenue stream you are helping the distros to make some money and at the same time giving them a reason to put the store software into their system and not try and reinvent the wheel themselves.
It is a lot like cooperative advertising money. Of course FOSS would still be free or you could offer a donate options. Imagine what Gimp could do if everybody that downloaded the latest version gave them a dollar?
And frankly most distos already provide a huge benefit to their users to be worth a small precentage.
I know but that was a long time ago. User space drivers make a lot of sense for a lot of drivers.
You can but they must each be compiled for that specific kernel. For some odd reason every distro seems to just compile them all in anyway.
Funny but I don't want my OS to take advantage of the latest CPU.
I want my applications to take take advantage of the CPU.
Every cycle and byte the OS uses is taken from your applications.
"First, Linux is a kernel ( and its not easy to pare it down while still having it work across variety of HW )."
Well if they would move a lot of the device drivers into user space that would help a lot.
You could dynamically load them when needed.
That is why I find Xbuntu, Android, and even OS/X so interesting.
They really seem to be trying to reverse that trend.
Xbuntu, Puppy, DSL, and Zenwalk all offer a usable Linux desktop on what is really a tiny system.
Android runs on a cell phone size system as does OS/X on the iPhone.
Take an iPhone and put a keyboard and a bigger screen and you would have a very functional system.
Sometimes less is more.
Not always. There is an advantage to a small market. For one thing there isn't a PopCap to compete with. Making it easy to market is a big step. If every Linux user has an option to buy your $5 game you may be shocked at how many will.
If you don't have to make a box, CDs, and ship them you will be shocked how much money you can make selling $5 games.
A system that might really work well would be to split the profits like this.
75% goes to the author.
10% of the sale goes to the distro.
15% of the sale goes to the group that runs the store.
You are right but a lot more people know what a Pic is than a ti msp430 is.
Yes it does.
1. a small micro controller uses very little power. Modern power supplies use some power just to run themselves.
You will use less power to run the main power supply for a second to charge a supper cap and then power it off than it would to use the main power supply to power the micro controller.
So do it in the back ground while you watch TV. They make those what a week or more in advance? If you haven't watched in a week then at some late hour when power is cheap it can power up for a second and up date the channel guide while it recharges the super cap.
Why the heck does a TV need to download the time or background data or Boot up?
For the remote you could just have a very low power pic listen for the remote and turn the the set. user a super cap to run it and every few days if you don't use the TV have it power it's self up and charge the cap.
But I feel that an easy way to market and sell games. With more netbooks coming out you could see a market develop for casual games on Linux.
No I want to buy Popcap games for Linux.
Only 3 of us needed it so it wasn't an issue. Actually we are pushing to have everybody on OO.org but the some people just will not move.
That is the simple answer. There are some other issues that you may have to deal with.
1. Will all your current documents work with OO.org, including spreadsheets.
2. How many documents do you get from outside?
OO is really good to be honest. We got a DocX document sent to my office. OO.org opened it just fine when none of our versions of Office would.
Saved us from getting the latest and greatest version of Office.
Yea your right. Notice I was talking about casual games think PopCap not Valve. Before people port top games to Linux they will have to have a market. Anybody with a brain knows that. But casual games are not that dependent on Direct3D/DirectX.
If the Linux does get a lot more market share then maybe middleware will show up for the Linux then more high end games.
You got it. But you also need to make it pretty, have a way for customers to review and rate the software, and let the author make money.
Just add in music and video as well and you now have a complete ecosystem. No need to get your programs into Walmart and BestBuy. All of a sudden you now have complete ecosystem.
And the customer will know that the software they get will work.
The other thing is and I really hate to say it is that it must be pretty.
Your right but marketing is more than commercials. Everybody knows about Linux. The real issue I see is still the lack of a way to "sell" software.
There really isn't a good way to sell software for Linux.
I still say an ITunes like app store for Linux is the missing piece. Throw in media as well and get people selling software.
The funny thing I always hear is that any simple program will just be copied by the FOSS community. It may but it really doesn't matter. Bejeweled, AstrPop, and Tetris all show that a simple fun program will sell. If every distro came with an iTunes/Steam like client then you would see more games and good software for Linux.
They are as good to Linux users as a fisherman is good to trout. Hey look free food.
Also Hulu, CBS.com, and goodness knows what else.
Yes Flash is a good reason. Yes it wouldn't be an issue if Flash available as FOSS but it isn't and it is an issue.
If they could just add Bluetooth, ir, and maybe GPS and still hit the price point it would be great.
With Bluetooth you could add wireless keyboards and mice, IR would allow you to use it as super universal remote, and GPS is simple enough. Okay IR could be dropped but it is really cheap.
People seem to forget that I did put diversity as the top one. I just find it odd that both are Indian-American and not just one. If both here Irish-American, German-American, or Chinese-American it would be just as interesting.
It isn't that any of them are Indian American it is all of them just happen to come from that small minority.
My mistake. Lack of native citizens going into the tech sector.
I am pretty sure that Vivek Kundra is a US citizen he has lived here since he was 11.
Two Indian born CTOs are the two top runners. Is this a statment about.
1. Diversity?
2. The lack of US citizens going into the tech sector.
3. Stereotyping?
Me I would vote for Vivek Kundra. I think he would see things from a customers point of view vs a vendors point of view.
I have to agree with you. And yes an Exchange replacement is really what is needed next.
Also needed is integration with Blackberry, iPhone, Palm Pre, and Android phones.
Heck I wish I could get a Linux version of iTunes.
And yes I like my iPod Touch a lot.
Well in Florida a much more common system uses heat recovery to heat your hot water. Heating costs in south Florida are close to zero so you only really need to worry about cooling. Of course I did know somebody that did have one. The replaced it with a standard heat pump because of the cost. Their heat pump fried when somebody mowing the lawn hit the well head and put a crack in it.