Haris, Memang kasar kau - the english version is "you pay peanuts, you get monkeys!"
I like to commend your post again as spot-on. Benefit of FOSS is freedom, not free lunch. Harisfazillah Jamel wrote: > Making business using OSS is still hard for us, maybe the skills that > we have and the believe that using OSS should be cheap... (haiya)... > > Im against using costs saving as a benefit because it make our OSS > industry suffers. Its may good to present to politicians but its has > negative impacts. > > We can see this from our friends doing freelance and companies that > moving aways from supporting OSS as business models. They suffers > because the amount paid could not cover the increase costs during > services. > > I always said. The amount that we save from licensing should be invest > back to OSS industry by paying services that will benefits to all. > > RM1000 that we save, we can used that to hire OSS consultants to give > services like network consultancy, training and configuration. > > This will increase our human capitals skills set and knowledge. > > They want quality services but tapi mahu bayar ciput. (want to pay > small amounts) > > Mungkin ayat ini kasar. Tapi peribahasa saya "Dibayar taik dapat taik". > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
