On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 9:50 AM, H.S.Rai <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Linux Lingam <[email protected]> wrote: >> ... ten years ago designers at Mahiti felt very insecure about moving to gimp. > > What is scenario after 10 years. Using mix, or FOSS only? View of > employees and employers?
i wouldn't know. someone needs to check with mahiti and/or sunil. am cc-ing sunil in the hopes of a response. > >> Likewise, the design & layout dept at LinuxForYou won't even consider moving >> to inkscape,gimp, and scribus > > SAD and BAD. why get emotional about it? 01. LFY is *willing* to pay expensive license-fees for proprietary software even when the media business is suffering in the wake of the global meltdown. 02. LFY is fully aware that with each passing day, their legacy of authored works in prop. software will make it more difficult to win back their control over their own authored works, while having a more efficient control over their costs. it's their call. मेनू की. a few years ago i chaired a panel on FOSS for media, at linux asia. we had CTOs and decision-makers from leading media houses, like TOI, HT, the Express Group, and others. this was perhaps in 2006. in 2008, also moderated a closed-door IT for Media event, called MediaTech, photo-documentary published under a cc-license here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/niyam/sets/72157604770903866/ this event had an even bigger gathering of media-professionals from across India. The adoption of FOSS for desktop-based authoring is still nil, though they may have rolled sophisticated solutions with FOSS, for CMS, CRM, enterprise workflow, web-publishing, archiving, web-casting, mail-services, and other specific projects. feeling the problem should be addressed from within academia, for about 4 years worked as a visiting faculty in a couple of professional media-schools, where i taught design, graphics, audio, video, and multimedia based on both prop. and foss tools. all these students-turned-professionals, stick to 100% proprietary software today. even mairu gupta, and akhil madan, former students who were at one time strong proponents of foss, have completely moved to propr. software. a client, a large publishing house with offices in a few cities across india, and now also abroad, approached me about 4 to 5 years ago to consider migrating to FOSS for graphics and production. conducted specialized training, and even undertook a whole year of support and consulting for them. yet the push from their own clients, their vendors, and their service-providers, forced them to gradually abandon everything and go back to propr. software. only their web-publishing department is FOSS-driven. i still haven't lost hope. am therefore actively researching into Peter Suskind's work, to discover the magic and secret recipe for an exotic perfume, the fragrance of which may suddenly bewitch the creative-professional community towards their self-emancipation. oh! that reminds me, sarai too, asked me to conduct a workshop on foss-for-media a couple of years ago. gora coordinated that. wonder what happened? has sarai moved to FOSs for their authoring. i do notice their tackboards sometimes has announcements of FinalCutPro workshops (FCP). regards niyam
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