On Tuesday 25 November 2003 15:54, Sachin Nair wrote:
Thnx to sameer for some light on fsf and opensource in general. But then again particularly for Mr. Dsouza,
Does China make a lot of business sense? or IBM, or HP or Trolltech.
No sir, china does not make business sense to me. It has a huge market but has redtape so mind boggling that the Indian threads
Ehh. I have been to China. I dont know what redtape u are talking about. If any thing laws will be by passed for half the moolah one has to throw around in India. I must add tho that in the past couple of years visits by the sundry local officials has reduced substantially here. We were never harassed because our factory is wired up with CCTV and audio surviellance systems - we make them. In any case redtapism, general industrial and labour policy, government laws etc are a seperate kettle of phish and will more or less affect closed and libre software equally (actually tougher piracy laws will help libre software).
seems like just a few knots. Mindless name throwing does not help matters. Even the great Enron fell hard!! Every company has it's own way of dealing with cost cutting measures and dealing with competition. Read .. Microsoft
If you are gong to talk about large corporations then am sorry I was talking about the SSI unit. My fault, I should have specified. 90% of the SSI's operate on pirated software. Ideology in these parts, exists after money!
FSF is not a bussiness nor are opensource coders interested in the
success or failure of your business. It is your job to utilise and contribute to the resources of freesoftware and make your bussiness a success doing so.
Quoting from http://opensource.org "Open Source Initiative exists to make this case to the commercial world." unquote.
That body most certainly cannot claim to represent the vast majority of libre coders.
If you do not have the mental horse power to
understand the complexities of free software (or software for that matter) stick to closed source (while it lasts).
Let's not fight shall we? :)
Putting it less acerbically libre software has changed the ground rules in the software bussiness and you need to think carefully and deeply about your bussiness plan. Effective bussiness models are still being tried out.
What are you planning a "Nigerian" vapour ware scam. If the above
reasons do not make sense I wonder what does.
Money makes sense to me. I don't mean money in an ideal world but in the real world. The very company which was earlier heralded by many for its contribution to opensource has been later thrashed for its newest licensing policies. Read REDHAT.
Oh well if it's merely money why are you cavilling about piracy, red tape and other things. Do whatever you think is acceptable to get your pot of gold. Once you have made enough you can preach to all about intellectual property even if you are a convicted monopolist and IP thief - Micro$oft.
google for TCO for linux and you will know why.
Well I have also found copies(hope not) maybe privately funded ) stating otherwise! :/
You are better off whatching an ad campaign than believing a self funded study which was not meant to be published and particularly when the funding link was suppressed. It boils down to cheating.
----- There is a manufacturing unit specializing in certain mechanical components of machines. They make extensive use of Tally(accounting) & AutoCAD. They use pirated copies of software, lack the monetary horsepower to buy the real thing. Even if they
Yeah I understand going hungry and cold to bed and all that. Oh god what is the world coming to.
did, they as of now don't see ay real value in converting when things work just fine. You tell me how do I convince them to convert? Or why should I ask them to convert?
First you cant beat piracy, drugs and sex ;-0. Oh well maybe with more of the same. You can also rat on them pirates and call nasscom. you will get a fat undertakers commission. You can then send in your hench men dressed like angels to sell GNU/Linux. They are unlikely to buy however cause Nasscom would have squezed their u-no-what dry. You might even get felicitated by the above convicted companies and could justly be proud of having helped uphold the law and taking a reasonable step towards your goal of making money.
Peutronics makes a linux version of tally. So they could pirate that. Autocad replacement http://www.linuxcad.com/
That should keep the world warm well fed and fuzzy.