27 Mar
2007
27 Mar
'07
11:20 a.m.
On Tuesday 27 Mar 2007 14:08, Pieter Palmers wrote:
During the panel discussion he basically said that the
"sell
shrinkwrapped boxes" model works pretty fine for them and that he
doesn't see any reasons for them to change. And I think he also said
that he didn't see any opportunities for open source in that field.
Now that I write it down like this, I'm even more puzzled as to why
they actually sponsored. Maybe my mental recorder is somehow broken
and I don't remember things correctly.
I remember it much the same way. I was a bit hungover though.
I'm guessing that whatever they sponsored was probably quite affordable
and it was just an opportunity to meet up with people from the old uni,
see what Linux developers are doing, and/or evangelise to us about the
delights of the proprietary software model.
Chris