On 8/27/07, hard wyrd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My take regarding "OSS doesn't pay" is because nobody had the guts to do it > in the first place. OSS is deeply rooted in the enthusiast sector, then > adopted by the enterprise and big names (eg. IBM, Novell, HP, Sun, etc..).
I should say, most of the businessmen or women are just too "segurista". > One thing I'm seeing in the current OSS trend in the Phils is that most in > the ISV and consulting business, pattern their solutions based on what > usually is done for and in conjunction with MS-based solutions. It really > takes guts to start an OSS-based business here and it takes know how and > business acuteness for the one starting it to see the real potential. Probably, it's not totally true. I know big companies particularly in the Metro Manila area into F/OSS already. Thanks to the information drive (or shall I say threats) done by the BSA before where they actually helped F/OSS consultants, integrators, developers, etc. to have business opportunities and make money out of different F/OSS solutions for their corporate clients. The real problem is that we don't have enough talents to sustain the needs. Also, the talents that we have are most likely don't have enough money to start their own business and sometimes are forced to join to a M$ centric companies just to survive. _________________________________________________ Kagay-Anon Linux Users' Group (KLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (http://cdo.linux.org.ph) Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
