[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
Speaking last week to more than 150 resellers and integrators at
the Caldera Geoforum in Sydney, Love said that while many
businesses were looking at Linux, a lot were put off by the lack of
a single platform and a perception that there were not enough
business applications.“However, Love believes there is a third key reason for business
reluctance to adopt Linux — the lack of a sustainable business
model for Linux vendors. This is something he believes will be
addressed in part by UnitedLinux, for which the binary code will
not be freely available on the internet. (The source code will
still be available for free download, but any binary independently
compiled from it would not carry the “powered by UnitedLinux”
brand.)“Love’s comments regarding an even brighter future for Linux
were supported by spokespeople from IBM and Hewlett Packard…”
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