Is piracy still a problem if you have a good web application with your source code residing in your own server?
On 6/6/07, jumbz tayamen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The key to any (profitable) technology business is propietorship. You develop and (solely) market a specific technology, even if you have to carve your own niche market. That is profitable. The key to sustaining profitability is constant development, research and constant development. Now, if your software is open sourced, and can be copied and distributed freely, Where will you draw your profits? and how an individual defines "open source" profit may vary. people (like myself) buy technology (for corporate use) partly because of support, it maybe because supporting a system isn't my cup of tea. And I would rather trust a solution provider- be it open sourced or propietary, to give me the level of confidence i need to keep this system running. (support agreement- if it were open sourced developed) The question of sustainable manpower on F/OSS (software) development maybe two-fold, would you also have enough people to SUPPORT the software once it is developed. And if it is open source and PROFITABLE, how much time,money and people would you spend to add features so that it evolves. Because eventually, pinoys would copy (read: pirate) your software. you are correct, no roads = no cars. but people need to move so they used horses, and here in the philippines they used carabaos. So when there are no roads and you cannot sell cars, sell horses and carabaos; or sell sturdy sandals because people would tend to walk - eventually wearing off their footwear. so starting a local open source company is feasible, but your product and services will have to suit your target market. _________________________________________________ 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
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