On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 08:10:29AM +0530, Nikhil Joshi wrote: > > I doubt. Let's suppose one of our IT companies opts for open source RDBMS > only to find out that 8 out of 10 people don't know any RDBMS other than > Oracle.
That is what was the initial goal of this school college movement. We should educate people in schools and colleges about the free softwares. > So it starts imparting training . But it soon discovers that new > applicants have excellent skill sets in commercial software. Should it keep > on giving training ( and maybe falling behind other companies ) or should it > stick to commercial software which is giving it large amounts of profit? > Think the other way round if suppose 8 out 10 are well aquinted with PostgreeSQL. Now for professional Oracle training how much a company will be spending. I think this will be much more than a PostgreSQL training program. > Linux is everywhere. There is no concept of proprietary software. > A business organization approaches me for software development. It is > willing to pay me money without bothering about whether I provide the source > code or not . The software should work and be ready within a given deadline. > I work my a** out and deliver the software along with source code et al to > the client only to discover that one of competitors has laid his hands on it > and is making money out of my ideas Now consider yourself as a business organization. Suppose you asked me for a software and I made it for you. Your business heavily rely on my software. The suddenly my company shuts down software making unit. And your company make some policy changes according to which you have to modify the software. I think you have to pay again for the complete software to some other company. "This above disscussion is once we had in train while going home from office." > I'm doomed. Shouldn't I make my software proprietary ? > The trend continues everywhere and there is a great divide : > proprietary software for Linux & free software for Linux (for home?) You are not talking practical things. Suppose you make small software then anybody can make it without source code. And if the software is very large then it is only you who can make changes fast. So the business organization will come only to you if they need fast modification and if you are taking reasonable price. regards -- Pankaj Jangid National Centre for Software Technology Yahoo-msnger : pankaj_jangid GPG Public Key : http://ashoka.ncst.ernet.in/~pankaj/gpg.txt
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