jtd wrote:
On Tuesday 12 December 2006 17:26, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
Aparna, people are ready to pay provided the cost is reasonable.
Last I checked M$ charged 14000-18000 INR for their M$ office. Who
in their right minds would afford it? The casual home user
definitely wont! :P This is the root cause for piracy...
And most of the
pirates are not home users but edu institutions, sme's, banks,
corporates and wealthy individuals with multiple pcs whose disposable
incomes / capital investements are orders of magnitude more than the
cost of the entire IT setup!!.
Very true. I had more success convincing middle class homes to buy a
legal OS and use OO and other freeware.
>
People
are/will use FOSS as long as it doesn't cost them a pretty penny (
reasonable cost is ok ) and gets their work done. The moment you
start charging a whole lot for your software ( maybe it proprietary
code or FOSS solution ), the same people will start "pirating" it
;)
If there is no big stick, there is no compliance when it comes to
costs. Even in the case of FOSS (near zero costs to the guilty),
coporates with cash to burn did not comply until whacked with a legal
clu stick.
Even out of the FOSS world there is a lot of freeware (no-freedom,
no-charge) available as alternative software.
Regards,
Rony.
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