On 30-Jun-08, at 9:42 PM, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: >> >> software is knowledge. Knowledge cannot be bought or sold. It can >> only be shared. >> > > And you would gladly "share" for a neat sum of money? > > In the Gurukul system, knowledge was gladly shared for next to > nothing.
<quote> If I have an idli and I give the idli to you, you have an idli and I don't. So you compensate me with something worth an idli. If I have knowledge and I give the knowledge to you, we both have knowledge, so compensation is limited to the effort I spent in giving you the knowledge. </quote> This is the best ever definition I have seen of FOSS. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/ _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
