[Linux] do members of flux ever get together and form spin-offs?

[Terry Richards]

Steven Benmosh wrote:

> 1. On the camera, I did not bother. I upload to the mac and ftp to the 
> ubuntu box.


well thnx anyway, i was motivated to re-double my efforts getting my 
argus 1512 hooked up but there are only drivers for the 1500, 1510 qmd 
1600. i think i read somewhere that it is not so simple to get this 
particular on to interact without the store bought drivers which are for 
M$ and Mac and i am not gonna pay $35 for the software to run a $20 
camera...no dice. but hey! i did get digikam up and running :-) i'm 
always up for something new.

>
> 2. On Linux, the key is that to succeed in business you need some 
> skills outside the technical realm, and it is easier to find those 
> outside the geekworld.


a little background: i under no way consider myself to be a 
goldfish-eating college dropout<a geek>. yes industrial phychology and  
finance but as someone recently pointed out it is easier to teach a CS 
person business than it is to teach a business person tech stuff

>
> 3. Kwan, I get the feeling that you work alone. From what I have seen, 
> you are a first rate technical guy, so I am not surprised you are not 
> starving. But to make a team work, you need team members to agree on 
> things, otherwise the whole is less than the sum of its parts.  Most 
> people are not as technically savvy as you are and need to decide on 
> markets to explore and ways to attract customers to products and 
> services that can be gotten from others just as well. For those, you 
> need skills like marketing, being nice, dressing nice, talking nice, etc.
>
> I have tried to get people to work on projects that I think could sell 
> and/or benefit the world. I could never find anyone to agree to a set 
> of goals and execute on a plan.
>
did you try to accept what your peers suggested or did they just not 
want to do what you wanted to do? one of the things i like about open 
source is that what drives it is what works best. i realize i have not 
given it much time but i am disappointed that the first few responces 
were strawmen arguments or non-sequlars or what ever you call them. if 
the stated goal is to "do something" with "linux" and make it "open" 
then something should happen, shouldn't it? if you have an idea then out 
with it but all the negative vibes is not good for anyone. everyone 
knows of some "market" that they can exploit. customers come out of the 
woodworks at times and services can always be gotten for less, look at 
MCI. there isn't any business that can't be "taken" by lower 
costs/prioces and well....you can't beat free; except by "value added"

my $2.00<adjusted for inflation>

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