[LAU] arch users?

[david]

Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 07:00 +0800, Ray Rashif wrote:
>> 2009/12/4 Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee at gmail.com>
>>         On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 09:50 -1000, david wrote:
>>         > Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
>>         > > On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 08:09 -0500, drew Roberts wrote:
>>         > >> On Thursday 03 December 2009 05:04:26 Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
>>         > >>>> Oh, I was thinking Golden Arch Linux would be the
>>         paid-support version
>>         > >>>> of Arch Linux.
>>         > >>> Quite difficult to have a 'paid-support' version of a
>>         distro that's not
>>         > >>> owned/managed by a company =).
>>         > >> Yup, but not too difficult to have paid support for a
>>         distro that's not
>>         > >> owned/managed by a company.Right?
>>         > >>
>>         > >> all the best,
>>         > >>
>>         > >> drew
>>         > > I guess. Doubt it'd be a good economic prospect in any
>>         case, considering
>>         > > the user base either:-
>>         > > a) doesn't need your help
>>         > > b) needs your help but won't pay for it cos "OMGZZ THIS
>>         ISN'T WINDOWS
>>         > > WHY SHOULD I PAY"
>>         > >
>>         > > Disclaimer: I use Arch myself, and I know very very few
>>         users who fall
>>         > > into b). Few isn't none, however =)
>>         >
>>         > Well, I've bought Linux software in the past when FOSS
>>         software couldn't
>>         > do what I needed it to, so there are folk who buy Linux
>>         software. I even
>>         > bought my first Linux distro (CorelLinux).
>>         >
>>         
>>         Yes, I don't argue that purchasing Linux software is
>>         off-limits, but
>>         that when the entirety of the software is already available
>>         free,
>>         purchasing support is a much more iffy member for individual
>>         desktop
>>         users, as broadly divided into the groups mentioned above.
>>         
>>         Really, the market for paid support is (as I see it) mostly a
>>         corporate/governmental thing, and none of those would ever
>>         consider Arch
>>         Linux and its rolling release in any form =).
>>
>> Wait..wtf are we talking about now? I remember it was something about
>> McDonald's, the M and the A, the Ronald and the Teepee :O
> 
> As with all (most?) ML discussions, its gone off on its own tangent =)

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communications. ;-)

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