I think you have a point nepbabu. But, in my view its not just Mr. Allen Tuladhar who promotes microsoft or other proprietary software. There are also other stakeholders who do that. Remember, Allen is also a businessman who run business not charity so its obvious and its their right that they will look for ROI.
Politicians and bureaucrats also support proprietary softwares for which I think there is two reasons. The first one is because they don't know the business model of open source, they haven't heard about the success stories of open source in Nepal yet, and besides there is lots of exercises in government sector for commissions. Commissions should be stopped right away!! There are also some people behind the scene who promote proprietary softwares, they are consultants and advisor's in different sectors of government, private, education, health and wherever possible. Most of the consultants are unaware of the success stories of FOSS, some even don't know about alternative softwares in FOSS to the ones in proprietary. Some would rather recommend the proprietary ones even if they know because, they are also paid commissions from the proprietary software companies per installation. Commissions should be stopped right away!! One should not forget that most of the government sector professionals and consultants work for the production environment, they don't want RnD. They want the product and services straight. Proprietary softwares mostly claimed live tested or they give warranties and support. But the FOSS still lacks adequate support and testing in Nepal. Why should they risk their investments? We need to work for that and FOSS Nepal community has a huge responsibilities in building support centres, generating man power, teaching businessmen (about business model of FOSS) , politicians, bureaucrats and consultants about good things (cost, support, success stories, warranty ), promoting entrepreneurship in FOSS etc. in Nepal. There are lots to do. So I think nepbabu we have to be aggressive in promotion for FOSS rather than being aggressive in words to respectful icons like Allen. Lets work together to build the capacity. On 6/4/07, Unix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > it's been quite informal but best, > i have objection in kukur netas for all > > > > > -- Warm Regards, Sagun Dhakhwa Sambad Project, Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya Patan Dhoka, Lalitpur, Nepal homepage: www.outlines-rnd.com/sagun ================================================================= ==INITIATING OPEN COURSE WARE ( www.sixyadaan.org ) in NEPAL== ================================================================= --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
