Hello Hempal dai, I am already contributing to that document, but due to some official work I am not able to contribute to it wholeheartedly.
Regards Akash Deep Shakya "OpenAK" B.E. (Computer) | Kathmandu University http://www.akashdeepshakya.com.np akashakya at gmail dot com P.O.Box: 8975 EPC: 4235 ~ Failure to prepare is preparing to fail ~ On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Hempal Shrestha <[email protected]>wrote: > Hay Akash, > Great point indeed, Infact HLCIT is also looking forward for calculating > the TCO for their software. Wouldn't it be great if you add some of > your valuable cents at > http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=dd3bchbk_28gpq6xzcg&hl=en. > > Further, anyone else who is interested to underline their views or join the > work in progress, please write back. FOSS Nepal is working on this > initiative to finish it by Ahasd 2006 > > Hope many of you might be able to made it, welcome on board > > Best Regards, > > Hempal Shrestha > > > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Akash Deep Shakya <[email protected]>wrote: > >> *"Detractors of free software like to point out it's not really 'free,' >> and claim that its Total Cost of Ownership is often comparable with >> closed-source solutions if you take everything into account. And yet, >> despite their enthusiasm for including all the costs, they never include a >> very real extra that users of Microsoft's products frequently have to pay: >> the cost of cleaning up malware >> infections<http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2316&blogid=14>. >> For example, the UK city of Manchester has just paid out nearly $2.5 >> million<http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1121846_bus_lane_fines_axed_over_bug?rss=yes>to >> clean up the Conficker worm, most of which was 'a £1.2m [$2million] bill >> in the IT department, including £600,000 [$1 million] getting "consultancy >> support" to fix the problems, which including drafting in experts from >> Microsoft.' To make the comparisons fair, isn't it about time these often >> massive costs were included in TCO calculations?" >> >> Read more <http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/30/1752220> >> >> *Regards >> Akash Deep Shakya "OpenAK" >> B.E. (Computer) | Kathmandu University >> http://www.akashdeepshakya.com.np >> akashakya at gmail dot com >> P.O.Box: 8975 EPC: 4235 >> >> ~ Failure to prepare is preparing to fail ~ >> >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
