On Sunday 07 March 2010 05:21 PM, Vickram Crishna wrote:
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Linux Lingam <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
But... I feel it is easier for govts, PSU, and academia to buy
expensive proprietory software worth several lakhs or crores, rather
than pay FOSS professionals services fees for deploying free software.
Provided that the quality is any thing lesser.
The above arguement is true when there is no good alternative available
(the reason which motivated me to create GNUKhata ).
And if support is the issue, then I believe it is just dirth of
awareness in such organisations who prefer to pay all that money just
for the feeling "who will give us support?"
This is probably correct. It is an ecosystem developed to choose the
most convenient solution, not the most efficient, nor the most
cost-effective.
However, there is also the unavoidable 'needle of suspicion' that
occasionally, there is more than convenience in play.
+1
I think it is not occasionally but most of the time.
I may add that many free softwares have proved to be much more
convenient than their proprietory counterparts.
This convenience comes in many forms such as easy on maintainance (which
again herts hardware venders who like to earn on regular visits ).
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
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