Re: [ILUG-BOM] What is stoping Indians from contributing to FOSS ?

On Tuesday 12 December 2006 15:20, Aparna Appaiah wrote:

It is true that people can (and should) pay for services related to free software. I wanted to emphasise the fact that people do not have

Aparna, people are ready to pay provided the cost is reasonable. Last I checked M$ charged 14000-18000 INR for their M$ office. Who in their right minds would afford it? The casual home user definitely wont! :P This is the root cause for piracy... People are/will use FOSS as long as it doesn't cost them a pretty penny ( reasonable cost is ok ) and gets their work done. The moment you start charging a whole lot for your software ( maybe it proprietary code or FOSS solution ), the same people will start "pirating" it ;)