On Wednesday 14 March 2012 10:06:06 Nagarjuna G wrote: > 2012/3/14 Guru गुरु <[email protected]> > > > ** > > > > On 14/03/12 07:58, Nagarjuna G wrote: > > > > > > > > 2012/3/13 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) <[email protected]> > > > >> On Tuesday 13 Mar 2012, Sunil Abraham wrote: > >> > Apologies for posting a job notice on this list. But since it has > >> > policy implications - I hope you will forgive me. > >> > > >> > DIT is looking for a TCO study between FOSS and proprietary software > >> > at the district level. CIS has promised to undertake this study for > >> > them. > >> > >> There are 5 types of lies, increasing in degree in order of naming: > >> > >> - Lies > >> - Damned lies > >> - Statistics > >> - Benchmark reports > >> - TCO studies > >> > >> So go it and make our case :-) > > > > Sunil, > > > > 1. how much you will add for each line of source code published? > > 2. how much would you add for nurturing the collaborative culture among > > people? > > 3. how much would you add for self-reliance the nation/agency gains? > > 4. how much you would add for granting the freedom to use, study, modify > > and distribute? > > > > The paradigms of proprietary software don't match with free software, for > > there is no single yardstick. Therefore they are incommensurable. > > > > You fell into the trap. > > > > -- > > GN > > http://metaStudio.org/ reShaping Education > > > > TCO is a meaningless concept in case of proprietary software, where the > > user only gets a license to use. S/he has no rights over the software - > > in terms of studying, sharing and modifying /distrbibuting it. Such mere > > 'license to use' cannot constitute ownership, at the most it is a kind of > > tenancy right. Since there is no ownership possible in case of > > proprietary software, there is no question of TCO. > > > > I agree with GN - TCO is a red herring, in trying to compare ownership > > rights which FOSS gives vs tenancy rights of proprietary software. > > May be Sunil should take this opportunity to raise such questions and state > that TCO is an incorrect measure for software, whether it is proprietary or > free software.
Cost to Rights of ownership v/s limited tenancy. There should be plenty of methods to derive this. The finace industry runs on this. -- Rgds JTD _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
