On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 4:21 AM, jtd <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday 30 December 2010 03:28:26 Sagar Belure wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 1:59 AM, jtd <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Get this clear: BEFORE you ask questions, you research and post >> > the results of your research. Then others will reply based on >> > your understanding or lack thereof. >> >> Alright. >> The Revolution OS documentary which was made in 2001 shows >> difficulties Eric Raymond and other VA systems software developers >> were facing problems while implementing the projects and to get >> venture capital firms investments. > > Oh. Moral of the story venture capitalists are stupid. > >> Also, why was the term "Open Source" came into existence instead of >> "Free Software", and so the BSD license. > > Cause ESR could not get VC funding. BSD came about because the BSD > guys dont need money, they are devils - just look at their logo - and > dont need anything more than a raging fire. > . >> And then, the Netscape's decision to make their source code open so >> to complete with Microsoft's IE. > > M$ got their IE code from NCSA Mosaic a free software. Some they took > from BSD and the rest from a trash can. > >> >> And, so on and forth. >> But, the documentary and even some of links I got by googling are >> like late 90's. > > Something is wrong with google. They cant figure out searches > properly. > BTW the hits you get have a readership ranking. The scheme is stupid, > because higher beings dont ever read whatever everybody else reads. > >> >> I mean, if you think for now, say, "What? A browser for $$? Are you >> nuts to buy that?" > > If you say "What? a M$ product ? you must be nuts to kill your > computer, screw your data, and pay money. Not to mention getting > shafted en passant by those crazy FOSS guys who dont know how to make > money. > >> >> Also, for guy like me, dealing with all this Free and Open source >> world not even more than an year now, is not at all worth to refer >> that all. > > True. After all history never repeats for those who dont know. Better > hibernate. 20 years from now the world will have crawled backwards > and the 90ish answers would be like so relevant. > >> I wanted the real-time scenario, or should I say, how the market >> look at all this FOSS development life cycles. >> >> > One of the very good methods of making money is studying some >> > topic of interest, then writing articles and holding seminars - >> > one way of providing answers. Do you have the faintest clue how >> > sought after are such people?. >> >> I can't really imagine, people making a *real* business out of >> this. > > Will someone lend him some imagination. I am really on the floor now. > >> >> > FOSS is vast ecosystem of every concievable tool imaginable and >> > invariably many thousand before you have faced the same problem >> > and found solutions, usually by a bit of research, many >> > suggestions and sometimes by writing code. The nature of the net >> > is such that all such exchanges are archived and google throws up >> > the answers. >> > >> > But if you expect to sit on your derriere and get answers you are >> > going nowhere. >> >> Agreed. >> I wish I see that line, I wake up every morning out of my bed. > > Take a print and paste it on your wall. Or set it up as a wake up > tone. > On second thought read all the nineties stuff - every alphabet. If > that does not help, nothing will. > > > > -- > Rgds > JTD > -- > http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers >
Wow. Awesome. Again. See, you've got so much to say than just making *another* comment. So, when I want to share this thread with my other peers, they just go saying "Another LUG thread..." And, I love FOSS. :) -- Thanks, Sagar Belure -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
