On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 12:56 PM, jtd <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday 08 March 2010 10:21:28 Vivek Khurana wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Linux Lingam <[email protected]> > wrote: <huge snip>
> The closed companies are entrenched because they have a head start of > 10 to 25 years. Many large companies had begun their operations > selling calculators made by DCM and Superior electronics. > Consequently a FLOSS company will have to cook it's books and indulge > in several other unsavoury practices to commercially qualify for most > of the government tenders. > You are mixing two disjoint sets. I am not talking of government contracts. The OP was talking about the difficulties in adoption of FOSS and lack of trained professionals, with special emphasis on graphics/design processes. To which I am proposing a solution that make a software that cuts the learning time, instead of matching the learning time and empower users to do more with FOSS when compared with closed solution. As I quoted MySQL, Firefox and Google chrome as examples of software that did more than closed sourced solutions, had shorter learning curve, at the same time proved to be more secure and stable than closed source alternatives. As for procurement, the policy can be flexed if the people at very top are ready to accept the change. The examples you have given about the procurement policy, are the default failsafe conditions accepted by the auditors and designed to provide advantage to corporates of specific size. This can be changed, but I am least concerned about government offices. Looking at the total user base of computers, government users are a tiny fraction. When people outside government are using FOSS for day to day activities, government's mentality can be changed. regards Vivek -- The hidden harmony is better than the obvious!! _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
