On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Vivek Khurana <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 7:18 PM, narendra sisodiya > <[email protected]> wrote: >> One of the most important point. We are still not clear that "What is >> FOSSCOMM" , there is not center understanding on this issue. there is >> not legal aspect in it. Also there is very less open source industry >> representation in it (only one compaany from whole india, deeproot).- > just a clarification, I am saying, inside FOSSCOMM, we are having just one company, I know there are many companies which are working in FOSS. ( Ex- http://fossjobs.in/companies )
> I dont think there is just one company in India representing open > source but the problem is most of the companies working in open source > domain are hybrids. They are in open source because it sells in the > market. Even the companies which shout to be the best open source > companies from India work on .NET and have properitory code base. For > them open source means something you can pick from internet and > rebrand with there logo to sell to customer. I have seen instances > where a famous sold RT as there ticketing solution only change they > made was the header to change the name from RT to there own name... > Another problem is what will be the definition of open source company > ? Will you count hosting providers who linux based hosting (along with > M$ solution) as open source company? Will you count those numerous > Drupal shops as open source companies who never bother to contribute a > single line of code ? Will you count companies which sponsors open > source events around the country, even have a community manager but > sell completely closed source products too ? > So who do you choose who needs to be represented ? > regards > Vivek -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya ( नरेन्द्र सिसोदिया ) │ Society for Knowledge Commons │ Web : http://narendra.techfandu.org └─────────────────────────┘ _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
