On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Narendra Sisodiya < [email protected]> wrote:
> > We invest a huge amount of public money in Army and many areas like > research and development. Govt already waste huge money in purchasing > licence to use the proprietary software. Same money can be invested in > development of software. > I think you are forgetting the fact that Free softwares doesn't always mean free of cost. Most of the popular free software developers demands money for the tech support. I think you may have noticed there are Free alternatives (open source) for CAD softwares which comes at a price (comparatively low). The pricing of CAD softwares as I understand, is slightly different from that of other softwares. They charge (in huge volumes of course) for the support and the software is a part (major part) of the support, not the other way around. Most of the CAD softwares I know were used to be specifically made (customized) for production industries according to their demand. So they are commonly known by the name CAD/CAM solutions. Now a days these softwares are used by individuals also and hence it seems to be becoming almost like any other software. I know this is not a solution for our issue. Lets not divert from the topic "whether we should submit a protest to the Corporation and to the State government or not". I believe as Free Software Activists we should suggest a better solution (if we have one) without compromising the output, and it must be quickly applicable. We should tell the Govt. "how" to do it, not "why" they should do it. Let's stop this unnecessary debate and come back to the topic... -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To control your subscription visit http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
