Lawyers, doctors, they just see you for 15 seconds and you pay. Can anyone really do this for software? its hard sell unless you come in as "consultant" .
By using this model (lawyer) however or paid services, how does a company export its own products since they are not the core developer of the particular open source project. Take MySQL for eg, they can offer both community version and commercial version, but that is because they are the core developers of MSQL, no? The rest are just SI's or solution providers that will just be using the community server and selling off some customized projects to a very niche market, unless that "customized" project becomes an open source projet that is popular and takes on a new wave on its own, then "this" project could offer its "community" version as well as its "commercial" version. Thus that will be OSS being profitable. Else.... Apart from that, the lawyer model is just oversimplification of sofware purchase and maintenanced process that does not apply. If everyone is just parroting and providing niche solution to a local market by using OSS that are funded and headed by others, it will won't lead to any serious local development that we can be proud of. > Ada projek yang bagus, >ada projek kadang-kadang kita tak tau apa yang akan naik e.g search >engine - google ? (sedangkan ada banyak search engine sebelum dia),>webmail - gmail (yahoo ,hotmail dah ada, kenapa nak ada satu lagi >webmail ? Just because someone has done it, doesn't mean it cannot be re-invented. My company write mail servers and i always get the question why another mail server? Just because Sony produce a TV does not mean Toshiba and the rest should resell it and not come out with their own. The problem would be doing something that ADDS NOTHING to the existing solution. Gmail was added to the example above, but ironically, i won't be surprised that those were the same questions posted to the google when they wanted to do gmail. azmi salim wrote: > " Lawyers get paid a pretty penny by clients that need their > expertise, but they don't own the documents they produce -- those go > into the public record as part of court cases." > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Join Open Source Developers Club Malaysia http://www.osdc.my/ Facebook Fan page http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=98685301577 http://www.facebook.com/OSDC.my You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OSDC.my Mailing List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/osdcmy-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
