On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 08:23:37 +0530 "Navin Dhanuka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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 :( > > 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?) > > Brrrrrr. > > possible? > > It is M$ Win, becuase of which the personal computing > has spread to millions of houses. [and u curse them for mkaing money, > and call ruthless ... ..] > It M$ Win was not there, then I guess computing, Internet etc. [hmmm...] Bill Gates in the early 90's said the insternet is just a trend and was not here to stay hence M$ was not going to support it.. in a press conff. later in the 1994-95 he said that M$ nurtured the internet ever since its early years.... as for M$ they dont develop most of the software, most of the NT kernel is coded frm scratch by Cytrix (better known of the vompany that made ICA Metaframes). as for MS Office only Word Power point is made by MS the remain. is done by Borland. thats why borland says even if we dont sell a single product we can survive, thats beacuse most of their revenue comes frm MS. The GUI Features is made by Apple Computers. and MS caught the wave because when it bought DOS frm a hacker it tied a deal with IBM PC on of the first pc hence MS Products caught on.. even the main creator of .Net uses Borland Delphi and Kylix huh? seems weared! > must have been a distant dreams for all of us. > Can't remember which **ix company made any efforts in sprading > computing [hhhmmm...] get ur fundas right dude! *nix was never ment for home users and pc's it has and always been a sever OS, only GNU broke the rules and started GNOME thus bringin Nix to home users. where as dos and mac os were always ment for home and pc's use > QNX the real time OS, has openly said that if we release our source > code, we will loose > the competitive edge we have earned. [hmmm...] they are plannin to but not the kernel and GUI Warren Brian Noronha Consultant on GNU Based Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wbn.f2s.com _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
