Hi,

On 2/18/07, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray debarshi.ray@gmail.com wrote:

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       So my question to  you is - in future if you were to be a

consultant will you give such blanket statements as advice to your clients.

I am not a consultant, and frankly I do not care. I write programs. Or atleast try to. I would rather make something better (eg., Octave) than waste my time arguing with you.

I so want to say - look who's talking?

Well, consultant doesn't mean they wear suits and never write code. I have met quite a few consultants who write probably the best C++ code ever. And they just don't do non-foss stuff. They have written (and still write daily) many many more thousands LOC for which under GPL than your arguments on the list. And don't say that you don't want to argue with me. I am probably one of the last guys to argue. My point was you issued an blanket statement which imho is wrong. I am *not* against GNU or FSF or OSS. I am not against Octave either. I made that clear to Baishampayan on irc and he agreed to what I was trying to convey. My point is if the need is now, will I ignore a technology if the foss equivalent of the same technology is not there or doesn't cater to all my needs at this point of time.

NO! What I would rather do as a "consultant" ( if I ever were to become one that is ) advise using the technology suitable for the project. Advise my client to fund the foss equivalent to an extent that it get those features and I make myself and my client credible in the eyes of the devs of that foss software and community at large. I consider that as my investment. So that later I don't have to use the non-foss technology. Think what I am trying to tell you.

Don't just run away saying that you better code rather than argue with me or somebody else. I don't think we have joined this list to argue though that's what we mostly do. And you chose to reply to my email. Didn't you? You chose to reply to earlier email(s) as well, didn't you? Why did you do that? Wasn't that a waste of time? If you search the list archives you have argued much much more than me for sure. I can bet on it. Or did you learn about time management today?

Cheers!

Pradeepto