[IAEP] Sugar Labs or Sugar Daddy

[Edward Cherlin]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 7:52 AM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> *Big Bold Disclaimer - these opinions are strictly Martin's. No
> statement here is formal, I'm just waiting for a timing-bug to rear
> its ugly head.*
>
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:30 PM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:25 AM, David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>>> I am convinced that the correct business model for Sugar Labs, will be
>>> a combination of licensing the Sugar and Sugar Labs brands to partners
>>> and donations.

>> I am convinced that the Red Hat and IBM models are more relevant.
>
> Ed, have you been a customer of RH or IBM recently? RedHat's current
> model is pay-high-support-license-per-machine-to-play. It works great
> for their target market, and it's a very valid (and profitable!)
> model, but I see no overlap with SL's space. Maybe their old model
> could be interesting to look at, but marginally so.
>
> And yet, RH built a reasonably strong community. IBM's model is high
> prices for custom development and support, highly restricted, and zero
> community.

The big contracts (with Ministries of Education and aid agencies) is
the only element I am suggesting we copy. In contrast, however, _we_
can offer low cost per seat and continuous improvement through the
community of teachers and students.

> cheers,
>
>
>
> m
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