well Nepali Babu , your open letter force me to write something regarding this . To debate on open source VS proprietary software esp. Microsoft is easy do .But actaully what free and open source community need to do is developing enterprise solutions for Government and other corporate houses . Which is lack here in nepal For this, as *Sagun *wrote
*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.* Foss Nepal need to develop enterprise soluitons and promote with softwares with support !!!! On 6/3/07, bhaskar prasad Rimal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think nepalbabu , it is not appropriate to use such slang words such as > "kukur netas for all" .we should think the peaceful competioion between > other vendor such microsoft.Our main goal should have to aware the > Politicians and bureaucrats so that they can think about the FOSS .In my > experiences they are not aware much about FOSS. we should explain them the > role of FOSS in the context of Nepal. > > I equally agree with sagun 's word "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" > > I think our aim should not focus how to kill the microsoft products but > we can speed -up awareness campagions to widen the scope and importance of > FOSS so that we can have win win model over the propritary solution. > > So as a fossians, we should create the healthy competetions not killing > other 's business . we can create the great revolution on FOSS in Nepal as > New Nepal..E-nepal. > > > Thanks > > Bhaskar > > > > > > *Sagun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>* wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > homepage: www.outlines-rnd.com/sagun > > ================================================================= > > ==INITIATING OPEN COURSE WARE ( www.sixyadaan.org ) in NEPAL== > > ================================================================= > > ------------------------------ > > Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. 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