On Friday 12 January 2007 22:08, Sachin G Nambiar wrote:
My intention was not to insult, just a disagreement thats all. We only differ on our thoughts as to what extent of freedom we are talking about.
You are not talking about freedom at all. You are talking about exploitation. And your knowledge about software business sucks big time. You need to understand the diff btwn methodology of knowledge creation and the expertise for it's encapsulation. What part of software represents knowledge and what part represents a perishable commodity as pointed out by others. In the foss world it's knowledge that is valued and the more of others knowledge you add the more you gain. Of course nobody is daft to give you knowledge without you giving back your knowledge (which is infinitesimial relative to the whole body and quite useles on it's own). In the prop world you use your expertise to trap knowledge and extract a fee. In the foss world you use expertise to always create and enhance knowledge, and charge for that and or your expertise in the form of brand building, services, customisation, virtual products etc. Because trapping knowledge imporvershies everybody your contention that you cant earn by not trapping knowledge is what? An indication that your knowledge pool is much less than infinitesimial. So enhance the knowledge pool by using it and adding back rather than keeping to yourself whatever "little" u know and becoming irrelevant. In my experience there have been innumerable software companies with superb products. Most are dead. Their creators working on things entirely different than the masterpieces they created. Did they benefit? hardly. would they have benefited by sharing their knowledge and expertise? We dont know. But from hind sight we know for sure that encapsulating knowledge in closed software fails Ofcourse the closed software world pretends that their knowledge is so unique that they can hide it in closed software and nobody will ever discover the same knowledge independently. Do you really believe that?. Or that it will continue to have utility. Or that it will continue to enhance itself without external inputs.