[oi-dev] OI project reboot required

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 9 May 2013, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>
> Upshot, *today* anyone who thinks there is a commercial future in 
> illumos on the desktop is probably smoking something.  There are a 
> few people who would be willing to pay for it, but it needs more 
> than a few dozen people willing to pay a couple hundred dollars 
> (more often substantially less) to make this a viable and 
> interesting (economically) venture.

There is little "commercial future" in the desktop for Linux 
distributions as well yet almost all of them have a graphical desktop. 
Availability of a graphical desktop is seen as a requirement for 
common acceptance.  Much/most of the graphical desktop development 
taking place for Linux does not seem to be done by the companies which 
popularly peddle it (e.g. Canonical has been more of a desktop 
packager except for its useless Unity).

The argument about "no commerical future" is becoming worn out and 
tired since that (commercial purpose) is not why OpenIndiana/Illmos 
users want to log into a graphical desktop.

Bob
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