On 15/10/06, Abshek said:
I think a web based interface while being local would not require a broadband connection. the 100 Mbps LAN speed should suffice .. whether thick client or thin client.
very true. After spending a few years in the market for softwares used by retail business, local area network seams to be very very common. At the most, these people have peer to peer connection, I even saw un secured windows 98 machines connected at peer to peer in many small setups.
We definitely have to pay people to ensure that there is a dedicated 10 hour a day, 9 days a week employee always working on the application.
I have been holding this point very strongly right since the thread began by my email. let's take this very professionally. because quality means dedication and for dedicated work we need money. and the only way we can see this through as a successful venture is by having a dedicated team of developers as Abhishek rightly suggests. Agree that with the FOSS model we can have programmers working from out side the dedicated team as well and that is most welcome. but a core team is needed for this project.
Naive and fake as it may sound, my original aim from this was not to make money, but just have a kick ass application out there which will allow me to convert my traditional business PCs to linux. They already use OO and Firefox after some initial chu chu. And are happy with it. But by all means, if it makes money, why not.
why not. did any socialist say "don't earn money?" Abhishek, we are doing a kind of noble job by giving people quality, security (as in virus free and stable system) and freedom. people earn money by cheeting othres and doing non leagul things (M$ has done it history is a proof). so if we get some financial reward by doing good service to the society, why not?
Another thing which can be worked on in parallel.
Support. Support. Support. While phone support will be infrastructure intensive initially, how about a web based "live chat" support? The first question anyone will ask is, "what about support"?
Yes, the first question is support. that is another major issue why people are afraid of adopting gnu/linux. regards. Krishnakant -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
