In my understanding most big companies (proprietary and others) support FOSS. With FOSS lot of tech developments happen which is finally somehow or other used to promote their brand/ products.
I heard the same about Chromium browser vs Chrome. Android and OpenJDK ?! umpteen number of drivers.. and so on. Money really rules. 2014-07-11 12:19 GMT+05:30 Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay < [email protected]>: > On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Avinash Sonawane <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > 1) To have a proprietary product company as a sponsor of FOSS event is > > it morally right? I mean there will be banners, flyers of that > > proprietary company all over the venue. In an event we are promoting > > FOSS and on a venue we are promoting/marketing proprietary product > > company. Isn't it contradictory behaviour? > > > > But if we deny the sponsorship aren't we depriving that proprietary > > company of doing a noble deed (of supporting a FOSS event)? > > While I wonder whether supporting a FOSS event is a "noble deed", it > would be nicer if you can provide examples of companies that match > your definition of a proprietary product company. > > > 2) What about proprietary *service* company? I mean the one which > > serves it's client with say system administration or building a dbms > > system (which is closed source suppose) for the client e.g. Infosys > > (http://www.infosys.com/), Wipro (www.wipro.com), Persistent > > (www.persistent.com) etc. Is it something different with the > > proprietary service company compared to proprietary product company? > > This of course means that you assume that the companies you list [i] > do not use an FOSS stacks for their services deployment/consultancy > [ii] do not contribute to any FOSS project [iii] do not see value in > encouraging an ecosystem by contributing in as many forms as possible. > > I would be interested in understanding why you see it that way. > > > -- > sankarshan mukhopadhyay > <https://about.me/sankarshan.mukhopadhyay> > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: > http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines > -- Thanks and Regards, | शुभं Ajeya Anand | अजेय आनन्द [image: http://ajeya.wordpress.com/] <http://ajeya.wordpress.com/> [image: http://ajeya.wordpress.com/] <http://ajeya.wordpress.com/> [image: http://twitter.com/ajeyaajeya] <http://twitter.com/ajeyaajeya> [image: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ajeyaanand] <http://www.linkedin.com/in/ajeyaanand> _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
