On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Vickram Crishna <[email protected]>wrote:
> Money? Recognition? Ability to deliver the same or better results to the > concept than a registered 'organisation' that State even requires, > regardless of the task? > > Sometimes there isn't any value to beating oneself up about things that > one does not change, because that change is unacceptable, even coercion. > > Let me rephrase the question: what would it take to remove barriers that > prevent the free software community from providing the same outcomes as a > Centre of Excellence might deliver? > You answered your question by your earlier statement. :-) Money: A lot of it to sell to the market that is sold on ads and marketing Recognition: So that an IT manager is not afraid to experiment. Most of us know that an IT manager is not held responsible when a SAP or Oracle project fails. But the same manager is probably fired if an Open Source project does not complete as planned. Ability: There are a lot of us with a lot of ability and enthusiasm, but we have bills too. The market expects everything for free, including services. So it is more a case of misplaced priorities than ability. Support Infrastructure: Let's face the facts folks. Support for Open Source is not exactly easy to find. Who do they (the users) go to for support? Not the techies, but the ones who are not. The hardware vendors are quite happy, in most cases, to provide Windows or pirated version of software. I am not trying to be pessimistic, but these are my learnings trying to survive doing exclusively Open Source based services in India for the past 8 years. Regards, Venkat
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