> On 24 Jun 2003, Allan Cacdac wrote: > > > Our distro is also based on RedHat.Though I believe that creating the > > distro from scratch is benefitial and as Lito said, more reputable and > > add more prestige, but it would take much longer time and more staff to > > develop and maintain including support. This is not impossible to happen > > but it's more of a challenge for us Filipinos.
Really? All for the sake of "Prestige and Proving the Filipino can do it"? Let me see, how much will it cost a company to create, and maintain its very own linux distribution annually? Take into account overhead, salaries, distribution and maintenance costs. No, better yet, let's just go with salaries. Let's just say you hire 10 senior programmers at 50T a month, that's 500T a month overhead for salaries, that's 6M a year. Put that figure up against the cost of hiring 50-75% less people just to modify and support an existing distribution to suit one's objectives (BAYANIHAN LINUX STYLE). So you are in excess of 3M pesos if you 'DID IT YOURSELF SO YOU CAN BE PROUD OF IT'. How do you explain this now to the orphanages and charitable institutions which could have benefited greatly from a 3M donation? Or maybe, how do you explain the fact that you can't reach as many people as you could have because you spent so much money on redoing the technology which others are already doing for free? Let's remove the nationalism from this issue and deal with it logically and practically. It would bring us more benefits and in the end we would have more resources to spread the open source word around. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
