> Please keep the business aspect (as in building a business with FOSS software) > completely out of FOSSCOM. There are enough complications without trying to > teach sharks to hunt.
There is a line which divides charity and business. Tea was served as a charity in initial days, the rest is history. Pirated Software was neglected purposely to make the people habitual of their software. Free Software removes even the need of piracy but the efforts for the ubiquity of this approach clearly demand something beyond the non-business mindset. People have clearly written on this mailing list that they charge nicely for their FOSS services. This is honest acceptance of facts and should be seen as transparency. One of the biggest problem with FOSS is the non business tag and this fact will soon become evident to those who want to put the 'business' mindset out of this ecosystem. I ask - why should one be shy to accept that FOSS promotional efforts bring business to somebody? Its natural that no project can move without money. If the customer gets proper care and FOSSilosophy is respected in the whole process, what is the problem with the business aspect? > So be it. A business that cant keep it's customers should not be in business, > and it's not our job to teach a business it's business. We are not here to teach a fish how to swim. I opine that why do we differentiate between the business and non-business fish in FOSSCOMM? MS _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
