> > I did a research in my town and here major market share goes to Windows > (obviously pirated) and technology solution shops are not ready to migrate > to Open Source because they are making handsome bucks out of providing > pirated solutions to ignorant computer users.
Where there is more market share for Windows (say pirated), there is more market for Free software also (say GNU/Linux). For them it's easy to make handsome bucks by providing pirated solutions than giving customized solutions. > > Secondly, I also visited few engineering colleges and university campus for > having a bird-eye view on their curriculum. I was amazed that it doesn't > have any space for Open Source (as of now) and not even a single college or > teacher wants to support me on this. :( > What you have tried to do for colleges/universities and what kind of support you expect from them ? How many engineering colleges/univeriwsties you have visited so far ? > I am confused that how can Open Source be a good option for me to earn my > bread (like teaching open source technologies, providing solutions etc.). > If there are hundreds of ways out there to make money from proprietary software/solutions. Then there are thousands of ways you will find for making money from free software. > One more problem is when I talk and discuss about Open Source and narrate > them the benefits (like freely available and others too) then people ask me > that if it's free then why should we pay you for this? My answer is: You'll > pay for my services not for any software cost. Does my answer make any > sense? > What kind of services you are planning to provide for your customers. You have to be more specific about, how you have prepared yourself for serving your customers. --- S. Baskar Twitter : http://twitter.com/linuxbaskar LinkedIN : http://www.linkedin.com/pub/baskar-selvaraj/21/881/b29 _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
