Dear Kris, On Mon, 2005-10-17, Kris Dev wrote: > I had earlier posted that most Open Source Tools are developed or > proposed by International NGOs or Governments who get public funding and > most international and national conferences are attended by the > employees of such international organizations and Governments.
Please name these FOSS tools. I don't know of any world famous tools developed by International NGOs or Governments. Most governments AFAIK only deploy and customise exiting FOSS tools. As far as I know most important FOSS tools are developed by companies. For example Red Hat, Novell, Linspire, Canonical, MySQL, Zope, Apple, Sun Microsystems, etc are all for-profit companies. Please name the FOSS tools that you are talking about... > How can private entrepreneurs and organizations fund open source > development and attend conferences? How do they generate the money? There are seven ways you can generate money using FOSS. Please see: <http://management.itmanagersjournal.com/management/04/05/10/2052216.shtml? t= id=3D85> > Many corporations use Open Source as a basic tool and have > advanced-priced versions and charge high service fees and sponsor Open > Source conferences. Yes exactly. This is a completely valid FOSS strategy. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that.=20 > Can Open Source meetings be made free for those who aspire to promote > open source? It depends who is organising the meeting. We are organising a meeting called World-Information.org. Where FOSS will be discussed. You are welcome to attend this meeting for free. http://world-information.org/wio/program/bangalore2005 There will also shortly be another free event in Mumbai called World Summit on Free Information Infrastructures organised by Dr. Nagarjuna of TIFR. I will post more details regarding that event when I have them. Thanks, Sunil -- Sunil Abraham, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mahiti.org 314/1, 7th Cross, Domlur Bangalore - 560 071 Karnataka, INDIA Ph/Fax: +91 80 51150580. Mob: (91) 9342201521 UK: (44) 02000000259 ------------ ***GKD is solely supported by EDC, a Non-Profit Organization*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: <http://www.edc.org/GLG/gkd/>
