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- <!DOCTYPE html><head><meta charset="utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no" /><meta name="keywords" content="GNU, Emacs, Libre Software, Hurd, Guile, Guix" /><meta name="description" content="GNUcode.me is a website focusing on libre software projects, especially the GNU project." /><link type="application/atom+xml" rel="alternate" title="GNUcode.me -- Feed" href="/feed.xml" /><a rel="me" href="https://fosstodon.org/@thegnuguy"></a><link type="text/css" href="css/footer.min.css" rel="stylesheet"></link><link type="text/css" href="css/header.min.css" rel="stylesheet"></link><link type="text/css" href="css/main.min.css" rel="stylesheet"></link><title>SWOT analysis — GNUcode.me</title></head><body><header><nav><ul><li><a href="index.html">GNUcode.me</a></li><li><a href="services.html">Services</a></li><li><a href="about.html">About</a></li><li><a href="business-ideas.html">Business-ideas</a></li></ul></nav></header><h1>SWOT analysis</h1><main><section class="basic-section-padding"><article><h3>by Joshua Branson — September 28, 2021</h3><div><h1>4 main ways that I am interested in helping God's children (making money)</h1><ul><li><p>Creating a business around the GNU/Hurd or similar microkernel OS</p><p>This could be as simple as hosting websites via the GNU/Hurd or
- offering software as a service, or selling machines with the
- Hurd installed. Since the Hurd doesn't support usb yet, that
- would mean I would have to sell laptops.</p></li><li><p>Creating a business around libre software as a service</p><p>This includes making an alternative to youtube with peertube or media goblin,
- paid netflix alternative with peertube or media goblin, paid pandora alternative with libre.fm or funkwhale, a
- competitor to purism's <a href="https://librem.one/">https://librem.one/</a> online applications, a paid
- minecraft server, or other game servers. I also believe that every opensource website should offer such services.
- For example, if guix system would like to generate income to pay developers, then they should provide services for Wordpress,
- XMPP, etc.</p></li><li><p>Selling a GNU/Linux smartphones</p><p>PinePhone / Purism do this, but one could make a rugged smartphone from olimex open
- hardware and a usb wifi chip. The difficulty is in making the monstrosity.</p></li><li><p>Selling a GNU/Linux or GNU/Hurd computers</p><p>Every distribution should have a "Shop" section. People browsing a GNU/Linux distribution should know where
- they can purchase a computer that will work well with that distribution.</p><p>Now I want to do a SWOT analysis on all of these to pick which
- one I should pursue.</p><p>SWOT stands for:</p><p><strong>S</strong> trengths
- <strong>W</strong> eaknesses
- <strong>O</strong> pportunities
- <strong>T</strong> hreats</p></li></ul><pre><code> |------------+-----------------------+-------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------------|
- | | Strengths | Weaknesses | Opportunities | Threats |
- |------------+-----------------------+-------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------------|
- | GNU/Hurd | Flexible | low memory | lots of people | Linux is currently better. |
- | | Libre licensed. | poor memory usage | like the Hurd. | A Lot better. |
- | | | Popular programming languages | Cool OS design. | |
- | | | have limited support on the | Work is ongoing to use | |
- | | | Hurd. Python and Perl have | NetBSD device drivers. | |
- | | | test issues still. No Rust | | |
- | | | support. | | |
- | | | Every time I have used it, | | |
- | | | I have had file system | | |
- | | | corruption. | | |
- | | | No limits are imposed on | | |
- | | | processes. Still 32 bit. | | |
- |------------+-----------------------+-------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------------|
- | LibreSaSS | easy to operate | have to set up the server | people may help me | Google/AWS can offer said |
- | | | this includes packaging | by contributing code | service cheaper than I can |
- | | | software and services for | | via powerful servers. |
- | | | guix/guix system. | | |
- |------------+-----------------------+-------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------------|
- | smartphone | built to last | is HUGE. Not elegant looking | It help open hardware | pinephone and librem 5 |
- | | | I have to build the phone. | People get a cheap | Pinephone is only $200. |
- | | | Will people buy it? | phone that they can | |
- | | | | play with. | |
- |------------+-----------------------+-------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------------|
- | computers | cheap and somewhat | Other machines are newer and | Help mother earth | I'm not aware of any. |
- | | performent. | are almost as powerful. | | |
- | | If running Linux, | Limited new graphics cards | | |
- | | then mesa will still | People prefer laptops. | | |
- | | work. New Intel | I have to build the website | | |
- | | graphics driver | Is there a market for this? | | |
- | | supports the Optiplex | Will people buy it? | | |
- | | 7020. | | | |
- |------------+-----------------------+-------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------------|</code></pre><p>Looking at the SWOT analysis, I think it's fairly clean that the
- Hurd is NOT yet the attractive business venture that I would like
- it to be.</p><p>Let me know what you all think!</p></div></article></section></main><footer><p>© 2020 Joshua Branson. The text on this site is free culture under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 International license.</p><p>This website is build with Haunt, a static site generator written in Guile Scheme. Source code is <a href="https://notabug.org/jbranso/gnucode.me">available.</a></p><p>The color theme of this website is based off of the famous <a href="#3f3f3f" target="_blank">zenburn</a> theme.</p></footer></body>
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