On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 7:41 PM, vinay sreenivasa <[email protected]>wrote:
> > >> This is the big mistake that people not familiar with IT (and FOSS ) > >> make. It's not the price, it's the Freedom. One should stress that IT > >> is crucially dependent on the software to achieve it's magic. > > We completely agree. Governments look at cost in a big way and we have been > try > ing to get across the point that freedom matters and what advantages > freedom br > ings. > However, while we do not stress on the cost angle, we cannot ignore it > either. > For eg.when governments can use Open Office and save lakhs of rupees on > license > fee for MS office, they should be going for Open Office and should not > spend p > ublic money on proprietary software. > > Your notion of free as in free beer is skewed, Projects at this scale would have Sun and so many vendors salvating for a Pie. -Satya http://www.linkedin.com/in/satyaakam -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
