M$ has 95% of the desktop markets. An OS is a platform. In this age we have platform independent technologies. FOSS = Free & Open Software M$ = Intellectual Property
I believe what we are here is to study Open Engineering with the free source which we can download and share. Please don't rant against M$ Platform and users. And if you really want, please tell me your FOSS contributions. Are they substantial of a press release. India does cheap labor, software services. Finland has kid writing kernel and calling it Linux. Danes always had a culture of harmony and prosperity. A mgt. college dude writes Ruby On Rails in 5 hrs a week. Now he is a partner of the biggest small company on the Internet. Would love to know more about you. My name is Navin Dhanuka. I am CXO of Creanology. Regards, On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 3:11 PM, satyaakam goswami <[email protected]>wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 11:34 +0530, satyaakam goswami wrote: >> > > it is a foss event? >> > > >> > >> > this is my take on http://satyaakam.net/?p=338 comments welcome... >> >> python is a programming language. It is opensource and most definitely >> foss. But. It is platform neutral and also neutral with respect to open >> source vs closed source. Hence a python users group will have people >> from all over - linux guys, windows guys, mac guys > > > IMHO - we must concentrate over FOSS platform only. Writing software for > Windows is an indirect support to Windows. > > > i do not agree with this approach , we need to write for all platforms. How > does writing FOSS software for windows will support windows or M$ , what > about the person who is writing the software who gets paid in the process > and he is a legit FOSS person. So we cannot have a fatwa just like that in > my IMHO :-) > > Supporting GNU/Linux and unSupporting M$ platform are two different task > and one should follow both. > > correct i agree with this approach, what do you mean by UnSupporting ? > > At the same time even If Software is FOSS, one must boycott it it work on > non-standards OR close standards because importance of open standards is > more then open source. > > this is a all together a different topic , this thread lets keep for > understanding what it means and how one is going to support the Ecosystem or > talk about how you think it works. > > -Satya > > -- > LUG@IITD - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm > -- LUG@IITD - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
