On 7/18/06, Charles Yao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rogelio Serrano Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 2:04 PM To: Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List Subject: Re: [plug] open source bill >I work for a service company. You cannot provide service without providing software. we dont sell software. >call it a conspiracy of the service providing companies to defraud the software selling companies of their income. >whats the difference between the regents of the university of california and government? get the latest bsd license. replace government of the republic >>of the philippines everywhere there is regents of the university of california. whats the difference? none! >i will vote for all the members of any political party who can provide all of the software government uses to the whole internet. it does not make sense >for private enterprise to pay for software that will be given away. only governement can. >everybody has access to roads right? its just a logical extension of the service. In the end everyone is selling service. I work for a product company and it still end up as service one way or another. Besides, if you havent noticed the future of products based companies (including software ) is tied to service. If software companies cannot provide what the client wants, then it should close shop. The age of protectionism is over, if there are monopolies like Mictrosoft, its because they are providing something that someone needs. TYCO, GE, ADOBE, COOPER, INTEL are some examples virtual monopoliesbut you don't complain about them. They affect your life in many ways. TYCO for instance has a monopoly on fire and security systems, they provide product and service. GE has a monopoly in aviation controls, the provide product, service and now even financing. Are they defrauding anyone? No! No one can compete with them becuae they are the best at what they do.
Yes they know their stuff and they dont tell everybody else. If the knowledge was available to everybody else then they would not be that big. They get their revenue from software sales. Service companies dont. I was speaking in narrow terms. Software selling companies treat software as property, service companies dont. Times change and better products and better techniques will always come along. In the software world the high end high cost product is always vulnerable to the low cost low end product and the giants tend to ignore them. You notice how people laughed at google when they started? MS Word was low end when it came out but it eventually replaced word perfect. Now m$ is the high end and everybody have them as a terget. Apple is not safe from that either. They create user centered software systems but programmers are learning the lessons that apple missed and starting to use it to create even more user friendly systems. This is just the beginning. Open source based software developers are very good at adapting new technologies. The internet has changed the software development landscape and the giants are ignoring it.
The difference of the University of California is that it is a private company, if it is a public school it is still governed by its charter, they can do evrything as long as it is under their charter. Including refusing
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is not mandated that they use it etc. In fact if they do not use PC's you really cant complain as long as the system works for them. They are not required to use it. Like I said, it's a tool. Do not compare the government to companies, it is inherently different no matter what way you put it.
In a broad sense yes. But thats totally irrelevant. How convenient. Enough for someone to exist. not allowing them take control of their lives and their future? Not good. -- things i hate about my linux pc: 1. it takes more than a second to boot up 2. keeps asking about filenames and directories 3. does not remember what i was working on yesterday 4. does not remember all the changes i have ever made 5.cannot figure out necessary settings by itself _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
