On Tuesday 21 July 2009, Mohit Singh wrote: > > 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.
Who is talking about charity. > 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. I am one of them. And i dont see any problem with that. > One of the biggest problem with FOSS is the non business tag that is ancient history. > 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? It's not about FOSS promotion in business, it is about FOSS promotion in business in THIS proposed organisation. > 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? Absolutely nothing. So it's a businesses job to do business. I dont see why we should be wasting our energies telling people how to do their business. > > > 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? Now i am confused. I thought you were saying we should be promoting FOSS businesses. -- Rgds JTD _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
