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From: Prasanna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Jun 4, 9:15 pm
Subject: An open letter to Mr. Allen Tuladhar
To: ITinNepal
On Jun 4, 11:45 am, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Dear nepabapu,
> Guess you are showing more of patriotism and selfishness and more biased...
> no offenses.
> Think about this scenario..
> Me I have been with open source for so long and have some knowledge of M$
> ( as u put) would like to take you to some point where you have no
> alternative
Haha,,, you say you have worked on OSS for long and know about MS...
so much about dedication to what you do!
> For certain criteria and some open discussion .. it is very good point you
> have put that the libre software that should be used ...
> Yes dear we are spending for the box then why for software .. but just guess
> if you are using OPEN source and doing some critical project as it says it
> is not liable for any damage to your data ... would you prefer to use it ..
> second thing it is more costly to get the support for open source ..
surely that sounds more like a page from the "microserfs' handbook"
take a look around there are millions of more open source hackers than
M$ engineers. Open source or non-open source your data depends on how
you manage it, not what kind of software you use. What do you think is
critical project then... Is MS word critical project... ? you have
choices there? notepad for instance?(AFAIK the most robust word
processor MS ever made) if whole internet can run on open source..
what can be more critical. If world's fastest super computers run
linux for critical operations... take windows... tell me it can run
these systems with the same reliability that linux provides,...
> think about these big players in software market... they are going closed
> source and proprietary .. which will leave you with nothing...
I don't get it... try making software as a independent vendor against
MS on close source... you are crushed... open source... all will
gain. you gain from support.. not by over selling a crappy product
(Yeah there are those ads too!)
> yeah these open sources are for geeks.. not for general users.. I think we
> have to use both for the optimum output not biased to only one....
I don't see how it can only be for geeks.. most linux users never see
what's in the source code... some of the poorest parts of the world
are using those solutions.. and they are better than commercial
vendors often.
> hope this makes you cool off a little nepali bapu..
> Regarding money yep ... big players like IBM, SUN, Novell, even M$ is
> contributing to open source .. why????? the big question lies ...??? hope to
> get some answers in this.. and hope you understand the need of proprietary
> as well as open source ...
Its about business strategy.. they have to do it because it's not the
war for desktop or laptops but a war for developers.. some of the best
developers would go for open source. That's what all these companies
are leveraging on. Google for instance...
> I really appreciate your view on this that country like ours should go for
> open source in government sector or lobby with M$ for lesser price like in
> Thailand.... which ever is beneficial.. but these netas as you put .. are
> not aware of future prospects they only think of their bhudi ...
> so be it any way nice to get your view on this .. and again I point out that
> there is no offense
> Chautari
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "nepbabu cx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[email protected]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 6:07 AM
> Subject: [ITinNepal] An open letter to Mr. Allen Tuladhar
> > Dear Mr. Allen,
> > In my personal view your work regarding Nepali font support for
> > windows series has been well appreciated by Microsoft (aka "Khali
> > bottle sisi"), some Nepali techies and in general the Nepali govt. But
> > I as Nepali citizen, condemn your selfish act!
> > But not only is Microsoft windows proprietary but also closed-source.
> > Every piece of the code for MS Windows platform is written with
> > "return on investments" in mind. The government of Nepal although
> > might be on your side today, but in the coming future, I see your
> > business fail and pray to god that it'll fail.
> > Other important reasons (I do not have to give you reasons as you very
> > well know it anyway), I condemn your heinous act and your business
> > strategy are -
> > 1) Every penny of Nepali citizens tax money is being shipped to
> > Redmond via India via the kukkur Netas of Nepal and high-level
> > government officers of Nepal.
> > 2) Programmers can't see what's going on in their system (because they
> > don't have access to source code unlike GNU/Linux systems).
> > 3) Every child that is hungry/uneducated is increasing by day because
> > that damn tax money could very well be spent on things like proper
> > education, building hospitals, proper electricity and so on.
> > And all this for one piece of Nepali font (this is a very naive way I see)
> > ?
> > The above mentioned points are more than enough reasons why your
> > company is doomed to fail in foreseeable future.
> > In lieu of that I urge you to promote FOSS and change your business
> > strategy rather than make try to more pockets deeper (which you
> > already have but just not willing to donate/support the FOSS movement
> > in Nepal, instead it goes to somewhere else. Where ? Thy should know
> > better I guess).
> > Listen to the people and not Redmond. You know it and a lot of people
> > know it as well that M$ will stab you at the back someday when their
> > work can be fulfilled at even cheaper rate in China/India (And when
> > that happens, you'll tell Ball_Mar something along the lines of "Oh
> > Mr. Ballmer, we'll produce next generation fonts and better support of
> > Nepali language of winblows @ government level so that you'd have
> > continued revenue from poor Nepali people's pocket") but watch out
> > Allen!, *HE* will stab you at the back one day. And you tell me that
> > you believe Steve Ballmer's every word ? What a joke!
> > #!/bin/bash
> > echo "What a joke by Stevie!" > /etc/motd
> > :wq
> > ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Welcome to microsoft ssh server running OpenSSH_4.3p2 Debian-9, and
> > Debian 4.0 running Apache on FreeBSD 6.2
> > Message of the day - What a joke by Stevie!
> > poo on you. You retard!
> > - nepbabu.cx
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