Hello all ,
I was not trying to defend Microsoft here. ( I am not in the their rolls !
)
Accept a fact !. No corporate company is going to sign a cheque without
some one "responsible" takes the responsibility
of the IT infrastructure. Based on my experience working with corporates and by
virtue of having signed at least three deals ,
accountability is a key. As CxO , I do not want to get brickbats for signing up
with some Individuals.
Red Hat ( which most people do not consider as adhering to Free software to the
fullest extent ) has managed to penetrate
corporate circles because of the Quality assurance procedure of theirs and a
sound business model. So , Either a proprietary
software development company/OEM or a company which uses FOSS as a base for
their (quasi-proprietary ) OS can only
sell stuff to corporates. (There also companies like IBM , who do not seem to
adhere to FOSS mantra are making all the
money ).
Whether It is a proprietary company or a FOSS friendly corporation, the money
they make is not money which
FOSS people make.
Does that mean that people should loose hope ? IMHO,No.
The technical merit of the FOSS and wider advantage of protecting the corporate
assets (avoid vendor lock-in ) should
be the stuff which should propel FOSS community. That require something called
Demand side learning.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand-side_learning - Read the article from
Harvard Business Review carefully )
Rather than being vocal and cribbing about everything , FOSS community to
should invest in Programming education ,
advocate FOSS in a less militant manner to wider society etc. Also , try to
create micro-OEMs which distributes
FOSS software to corporates here. I have not seen any FOSS person with that
kind of guts to use FOSS infrastructure
to run a business model around it. All those people who claim themselves to be
FOSS enthusiasts are Individuals
or companies which uses a FOSS tool to make a living. Then , there are some
peripheral projects which they
contribute.
Without understanding the strength of the enemy , how a war will be won ?
Recently , I blogged about Mono. Mono is a OSS software , It does not adhere
to fourth freedom. That is only
"crime" , the project has committed. If there are some programmers here , try
to learn Mono.
For people who are interested can check @
http://praseedp.blogspot.com/2011/10/why-i-consider-mono-is-important-for.html
Mono is one good way to beat Microsoft in their own game. Most C# Windows
projects can be brought over to Linux
using Mono. When there are apps , people will flock into the Linux. Then, we
can start the battle inside the Linux community
to impose the fourth freedom.
IMHO , abandoning fourth freedom (freedom to pass on the derivative work ) is
the root cause of all the evil which
the community faces. Attract programmers, rest will be matter of days (years )
.
regards
Praseed Pai
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From: Ganesan Venkata Subramanian <[email protected]>
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Hi Praseed,
Then what is the motive of Microsoft in this scenario. Making the corporate
world dependable on them. Earlier it was the OEM segment which GNU/Linux has
penetrated. Now the corporate world is the target.
GANESAN VENKAT SUBRAMANIAN
Registered GNU/Linux user #409047
'I am what I am because of who we all are'
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Praseed Pai <[email protected]> wrote:
We cannot say that Microsoft is wrong here as well
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