Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [Pika-dev] Funding Drive

[Davide Libenzi]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Tom Lord wrote:

>     > From: Tom Lord <address@hidden>
> 
>     > I'm asking those of you with a commercial interest in arch, either
>     > individually or via your organization, to make a contribution today.
>     > I suggest that you pick an amount on a self-assessed sliding scale of,
>     > say, $50 to $500.
> 
> I should add to that: if you do have such a commercial interest, and
> decide to send some help, please consider telling me a bit about the
> nature of your commercial interest so that I can better understand how
> arch is situated in the commercial world.

I'm not following Arch discussions lately due a very limited bandwidth 
(not network but time). But since you ask, I can tell you the reasons that 
stopped my two pushes for Arch inside my group (that has a mixed Linux / 
Windows developement hosts):

1) The need to install Cygwin on Windows

2) The lack of an Arch server (they mean Arch protocol)

They (GMs) perceive Arch as a "fragmented" solution that requires different 
component to be installed/setup to have a working system. I use it on 
Linux, so I don't care. But it seems they do care. This besides 
re-training developers on a different dev model, which is fine. I much 
prefer to talk to developers than to general managers.




- Davide